A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn's rings at a new angle.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core.

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The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa on July 6, 2026, completing a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage to one of the strangest objects in Earth's neighborhood ...

A waning crescent Moon will pass close to Saturn, Mars, and the Pleiades star cluster in the predawn sky on July 7 and 8, 2026, giving early risers across the Northern Hemisphere a chance to spot four ...

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The spacecraft, manufactured by Arizona-based start-up Katalyst Space Technologies, reportedly took just eight months to make ...

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