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Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT will invest about $230 million to build a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites using U.S.

Auriga is home to numerous deep-sky wonders ... Lacerta is a relatively “young” constellation, first appearing on celestial maps in 1690. Its brightest star, Alpha (α) Lacertae, is a paltry ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...