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Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.
In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...
The first — and by far the noisier of the two — was the 11-minute trip to space taken by pop singer Katy Perry, television personality Gayle King and four others on a Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket.
With more than 400 luminous, uplifting works, the new exhibition ‘David Hockney 25' at the Louis Vuitton Fondation in Paris, ...
A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from, including world-class observatories and six Dark Sky parks.
Fashion and powerful slogan T-shirts have a long standing relationship. Be it Katherine Hamnett with her 1980s, politically charged statements worn by everyone from George Michael to Naomi Campbell; ...
I’m leading another eclipse trip. No surprise there. I’ve traveled to observe 16 total solar eclipses, and on all but two of them I was the official astronomer. But this one’s special, even ...
"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...
In a 2018 Astronomy & Astrophysics paper titled “Small impacts on the giant planet Jupiter,” Ricardo Hueso and colleagues estimated that small objects about 16 to 65 feet (5 to 20 meters ...
One of the great things about astronomy is that it's full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just can't predict when a new one might pop up. But when one does appear ...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and view the first major meteor shower of the spring, the Lyrids. Because more than one meteor shower originates ...
Texas A&M head football coach Mike Elko said he would handle what he deemed an offensive team motto that came out of the Aggies’ defensive line group this week. It all started when defensive ...