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China has confirmed that a massive high-altitude balloon seen over Montana this week was an uncrewed Chinese airship. The balloon was spotted near Billings, Montana, on Wednesday (Feb. 1) as it appeared to be hovering stationary (opens in new tab),…
The bright, nearly full moon will meet up with the Gemini twin stars of Castor and Pollux this weekend in an eye-catching winter display. The waxing gibbous moon will be over the horizon to the east on Friday (Feb. 3)…
Astronomers have measured the mass of a lone white dwarf star for the first time. This type of smoldering stellar remnant is formed at the end of the lives of low-mass stars and will be what the sun leaves behind…
Although astronomers have discovered more than 5,200 exoplanets, less than 200 are rocky — so the discovery of a new terrestrial exoplanet is always exciting. In a new study, a team of 50 astronomers from around the world have confirmed…
In case you haven’t heard yet, a rare green comet that hadn’t been seen since the time of the Neaderthals made its closest approach to Earth on Wednesday (Feb. 1), thrilling astronomy geeks all over the world. Just type “comet”…
A senior executive at Zero-G loves watching first-time customers on her company’s parabolic airplane flights. When clients float in the air like astronauts, “there is a wonder that comes out in people’s faces, where they become child-like,” Allison Odyssey, Zero-G’s…
Many of our imagined sci-fi futures pit humans and machines against each other — but what if they collaborated instead? This may, in fact, be the future of astronomy. As data sets grow larger and larger, they become more difficult…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found another meteorite on Mars. The space rock is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide and consists primarily of iron and nickel, Curiosity team members announced via Twitter on Thursday (Feb. 2). And the meteorite has…
Some 780 million light-years from Earth, at least three galactic clusters are undergoing a chaotic merger, and using data from a variety of telescopes, astronomers captured the massive collision in a striking new image. The smaller galactic clusters, each of…
Proving yet again that if at first you do not succeed, try, try again, two astronauts were finally able to wiggle a stubborn strut into place, completing the installation of a solar array platform that spanned two spacewalks outside the…
