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The desert city in southern Arizona is a sanctuary for stargazers—and now it's even easier for visitors to explore.

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The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR24 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll need to prepare for the worst ...

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...

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A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.