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Mariner 10.

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Mariner 10, a mission of firsts, used gravity to bend its way from Venus to Mercury

Total solar eclipse

2024 Solar Eclipse

Celestron partners with Astronomy for major eclipse event

Comet Pons-Brooks in outburst in October

Solar System, Upcoming Events

The ‘Devil Comet’ is headed our way — and that’s OK

The most distant quasars are roughly 13 billion light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

Astronomers map 1.3 million supermassive black holes

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

The Milky Way’s central black hole could have a hidden jet

This artist’s concept shows a planet gradually spiraling into its host star. Credit: R. Hurt & K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)

More than a few nearby stars show signs they ate young planets

The lunar nearside

Every Full Moon, you can see the craters made famous in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Thomas Stafford's 1966 NASA portrait. Credit NASA

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Remembering Tom Stafford, the Apollo commander who did his part to thaw the Cold War

Exotic Objects, Uncategorized

The rumblings that led to the ‘alien spheres’ probably came from a truck

Sir Brian May, Lord Martin Rees, Professor Mary Kaldor, and Dr. Garik Israelian pictured at the Starmus VII launch event in London.

Science, Upcoming Events

Starmus unveils its program for ‘Starmus VII, The Future of our Home Planet’

An artist's conception of the pair of supermassive black holes.

Exotic Objects, Science

These supermassive black holes, equal to 28 billion Suns, are the heaviest ever measured

Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image center, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a megacluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

Dwarf galaxies turned on the lights near the dawn of time, JWST reveals