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In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m).

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Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

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There's something neat that happens when the full moon is closer to the horizon, and we call it the "moon illusion." ...

July’s full moon will look especially low in the sky after sunset. This is largely because of its proximity to the summer solstice, when the sun is at its highest in the daytime sky and the moon ...

July's full moon is just around the corner, and this full moon is unique for 2025. That's because this full moon comes less ...

Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an ...

There's something neat that happens when the full moon is closer to the horizon, and we call it the "moon illusion." ...