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A blue micromoon is a rare spectacle, though it's not as blue or as micro as you might imagine ...

This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.

The second full moon of this month, or "blue moon," is upon is. But what's the big deal about it anyway?

Astronomers examining deep views from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified a supermassive black hole that reached enormous size while the material around it had barely begun to form stars or build a full galaxy. The object, known as ...

A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn's changing "rotation rate" was never caused by the planet speeding up or slowing down, but by powerful winds high . ...

During a wet dress rehearsal, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded in dramatic fashion, erupting into a massive fireball.

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend -- a blue moon that's also the most distant and smallest-looking full moon of the year.

Astronomers, with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking discovery that could completely rewrite our understanding of cosmic history: a supermassive black hole that existed before the stars of its host galaxy even ...

Astronomers wonder, "How did it grow up so fast?"

The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.