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Astronomers have been tracking unusual bursts of radio emissions that repeat regularly. They say they've just found a "Rosetta stone."

Astronomers believe they've spotted a "planet factory" near Jupiter that could explain the origins of strange meteorites found on Earth.

An international team of researchers argue that special fungi could be used to convert the Martian regolith into crop-friendly soil.

In 2019, astronomers recorded a distant star doing something unexpected.

An astronomer explains what makes the second full moon of May special.

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 . ...