Introduction. Long-duration stays on the Moon are scheduled to start this decade (Foing et al., 2018, 2021; Heinicke and Foing, 2021; Silk et al., 2021).One may realistically expect the first steps on ...

Phil Plait is a professional astronomer and science communicator in Virginia. His column for Scientific American, The Universe, covers all things space. He writes the Bad Astronomy Newsletter.

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s perspective, these two bright planets appeared to draw so close that they ...

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There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

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After that reveal in Ahsoka Season 1 and Christensen's return in Season 2, it is confirmed that Anakin Skywalker will have a much bigger role in the second chapter.. If that becomes the case, Anakin ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful phenomena known, aside from the Big Bang.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Harvard University Department of Astronomy The H3 Survey is answering the question: how did the Milky Way Galaxy grow and assemble over cosmic time? To answer this ...

Our galaxy may not collide with its neighbor after all, suggests new research. For over a century, astronomers believed a dramatic collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies was ...