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New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and early morning ...

A look at the most-read space stories of 2025, covering satellite activity, space missions, scientific discoveries, and natural events observed from Earth ...

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“The recent Nature paper by Borlaff, Marcum and Howell raises important concerns about our ability to continue gathering ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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