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The asteroid targets of this NASA mission are turning out to be very strange
NASA's Lucy spacecraft still has five years of trekking through space before it sees its first Trojan asteroid, but mission scientists are already getting a sense of what these rocks look like.
Mysterious blue blobs a new type of star system created by a galactic 'belly flop'
The blobs are irregular groups of young blue stars thought to have formed in a galactic collision that scientists liken to a belly flop.
Scientists' predictions for the long-term future of the Voyager Golden Records will blow your mind
The future is a slippery thing, but sometimes physics can help. And while human destiny will remain ever unknown, the fate of two of our artifacts can be calculated in staggering detail.
4 dead telescopes' observations lead to stunning new galaxy portraits
Four retired telescope missions are helping astronomers uncover new insights about how dust behaves in galaxies.
'Betelgeuse on steroids' sheds light on how rare massive stars die
Astronomers are watching a red hypergiant star's final era to better understand what happens at the end of a stellar life cycle.
Hubble Space Telescope shows 5,000 ancient galaxies sparkling like confetti
Thousands of distant galaxies in different shapes and sizes glow in infrared light in a newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Andromeda galaxy bears scars of a catastrophic collision
Astronomers have traced the violent and catastrophic evolution of Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor, by analyzing the makeup and motion of more than 500 stars within the nearby galaxy.
2 Earthlike planets spotted in newly discovered nearby star system
A planetary system with two Earthlike planets has been discovered only 33 light-years away from us.
