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Light Pollution Threatens Earth's Last Pristine Night Sky
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Astronomer Revolt
“All the farther away places that astronomers have searched for decades to build their telescopes are now at least a bit light polluted, we have arrived at a limit. We cannot escape anymore from civilization.”
An Asteroid Stands a Chance at Impacting Earth. Are We Prepared?
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Planetary Defense
The international community will take practical steps to make sure we’re fully prepared for the worst-case scenario.
Investigating the Stonehenge Moon Mystery
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Celestial Design
A team of archaeologists and astronomers in the U.K. is using the two-year standstill to prove whether one of the U.K.’s most famous and mysterious landmarks — the 5,000-year-old Stonehenge — reflects the celestial phenomenon in its design.
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Light Pollution Threatens Earth's Last Pristine Night Sky
“All the farther away places that astronomers have searched for decades to build their telescopes are now at least a bit light polluted, we have arrived at a limit. We cannot escape anymore from civilization.”
February 11, 2025
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An Asteroid Stands a Chance at Impacting Earth. Are We Prepared?
The international community will take practical steps to make sure we’re fully prepared for the worst-case scenario.
February 4, 2025
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Investigating the Stonehenge Moon Mystery
A team of archaeologists and astronomers in the U.K. is using the two-year standstill to prove whether one of the U.K.’s most famous and mysterious landmarks — the 5,000-year-old Stonehenge — reflects the celestial phenomenon in its design.
January 28, 2025
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Super Heavy Returned Home. Starship Didn't.
SpaceX's seventh flight test of the skyscraper-sized Starship Super Heavy marked the second successful recovery of the massive booster. However, the mission took an unexpected turn 8.5 minutes into launch when SpaceX lost all communications and telemetry from Starship. The spacecraft had undergone Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, exploding in the skies over the Caribbean.
January 21, 2025
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Sea and Air Photos Capture Blue Origin's Towering New Glenn Rocket
The Jeff Bezos-founded spaceflight company Blue Origin has big ambitions for expanding the human footprint in orbit and beyond. The reusable New Glenn could make that possible, and the new heavy-lift rocket awaits its first flight at Cape Canaveral. We are on-site with Blue Origin.
January 14, 2025
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To Glimpse the Contours of Star Lore, Look to the Pleiades
The human preoccupation with the Pleiades may serve as a gauzy portal into the minds of past skywatchers, potentially unlocking a tantalizing glimpse of the forgotten cosmologies that animated prehistoric human life and continue to shape our perceptions in the modern world.