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Will they or won't they? Two galaxies that probably won't become one
The Tarantula Nebula is very, very big
The chained princess’s drogue
The spectacular Sunflower Galaxy M63
Al Bean, Apollo 12 moonwalker, has died
A Pac-Man crater on Mars
Get ready: A star will pass pretty close to the Sun in just 1.3 million years
Good (?) news: The Sun will form a planetary nebula when it dies after all!
The jumbled mess in the center of Jackson Crater
Two planets discovered: One by gravity, one by accident [Part 2]
Two planets discovered: One by gravity, one by accident [Part 1]
Deadpool 2's Ryan Reynolds literally delivered coffee to land that secret A-list cameo
So, about that 'interstellar asteroid' announced yesterday…
A quintet of galaxies that's actually a quartet. Except it's a quintet.
First light for TESS!
Here’s the story with Deadpool 2's Stan Lee cameo
Hubble + nearby galaxies = galactic gorgeousness
Vela X-1 is plowing its way through the galaxy
A glimpse of oxygen at the edge of space reveals stars born just after the Universe itself
A tiny cube sees the Earth and Moon on its way to Mars
Did the Galileo spacecraft pass through a geyser plume over Europa? Maaaaaybe.
A teal blob attacks the North Sea
Science + Cards Against Humanity = another young woman getting a full ride to college
GET YORE CHOPPAH TO MARS!
Erosion... on the Moon?
Plaitgiarism
James Gunn explains one MCU character’s dying words in Avengers: Infinity War
Want to save the world? Vote.
My god. It *is* full of stars.
NASA hopes to launch its next big Mars lander, InSight, tomorrow!
Infinity War's Ross Marquand breaks silence on 'Yoda-esque' secret character
Rocket News: Blue Origin, SpaceX, and the future of spaceflight
Avengers: Infinity War created a major inconsistency in the MCU's Infinity Gauntlet timeline
Neighbula
Gaia: This is not a photo of the night sky
Explaining the importance of Avengers: Infinity War's only post-credit scene
The Sun's motion, reflected in the galaxy
MUST SEE VIDEO: Snowstorm on a comet!
The asteroid Kleopatra: Less of a dog bone and more of a dumbbell
Aliasing illusion makes 3D sculptures wiggle and gyrate
The dead star, the doomed star, and their little friend
OK fine, let’s do this: Uranus smells like rotten eggs
Hubble’s 28th anniversary: Silt in the Lagoon
A *ridiculously* huge image of spectacular star birth
The Men of Steel: Superman actors hang out in a clubhouse, play basketball and bond
The extinction of starlight
Everything you need to know about TESS, NASA's new planet-finding space observatory
John Krasinski breaks silence, reveals the origin of the monsters in A Quiet Place
Fly over Jupiter's north pole in a 3D thermal infrared tour
Air-breathing space engines: A last-minute reprieve for decaying orbits?
Pulsating star illusion will have you questioning reality
Two videos, two rocket ships
Elon Musk’s space-voyaging Tesla: Where’s it headed?
Turn south at Jupiter
A precise distance for an ancient beauty
Are we overlooking a lot of nearby brown dwarfs?
Life in hell: Could Venus have a bacterial infection?
Tiangong-1 burned up over the Pacific Ocean
The last gasp of a dying star
A whirlwind romance leads to a million births
How to melt a snowflake
What is this galaxy doing without a dark matter halo?
Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot teases Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds for stealing her signature look
Take a little dip in the Little Dipper
Cosmic sleuthing: An origin story for a really weird meteorite
Orion's filaments of star birth
Did a close pass by an alien star system millennia ago rain down comets on the solar system?
Hubble gets Messier
Exocomets detected orbiting nearby stars. In other words: alien comets!
The Moon shows us what it is to be human
The stars watch the land reborn
Top o' the rainbow to ya!
A flash from Triton
5 human/monster sex scenes that take The Shape of Water to the next level
How to make a nearly naked black hole
A collision of art, science... and galaxies
Whoa, like, Jupiter is DEEP. Really, really deep.
So this is why Thanos wants to vaporize half the universe in Avengers: Infinity War
New Infinity War collectible covers unveil Iron Man Bleeding Edge armor, new character looks
Siberian Illusion
When heaven and Earth collide: The fall of Tiangong-1
A star is about to plunge head first toward a monster black hole. Astronomers are ready to watch.
An asteroid is about to embark on a very long voyage to interstellar space
Disney announces slew of Marvel release dates — including 6 new movies
Karate Kid sequel Cobra Kai teaser reveals Johnny still knows no mercy
A star like the Sun has *six* gas giants orbiting it... with two in its habitable zone
Vacuuming up the dust — and sterilizing a planet — around Proxima Centauri
A spectacular crater glows on the Moon's far side
How fast is the Universe expanding? The answer depends on how you measure it, and that's a problem
A far-flung exoplanet may have thrown its sibling under the bus
The Hunter and the Horsehead
What mysteries lurk at Proxima Centauri?
A superluminous supernova seen more than 10 BILLION light years away!
Hiding a star cluster is Sirius business
OSIRIS-REx looks home from far, far away
Black Panther's end-of-credits scene and what it might mean for Avengers: Infinity War
Karate Kid TV sequel Cobra Kai (crane) kicks up its first teaser footage
Ring(s) around the black hole
A rose for Valentine’s Day... a really, really big rose
The White House budget: Defunding science
Gassy or metal? Newly found planets straddle the line for super-Earths
Did the dinosaur-killer asteroid have an accomplice? Evidence is… mounting.
At the bottom of the Moon
Assessing a volcano’s destructive power…from space
'Orbit': A video trip around the Earth... in real time!
UPDATE: Falcon Heavy roars into space!
Next Stop, the orbit of Mars: The Falcon Heavy is set to fly today
The Cloverfield Paradox crashes to Earth as Twitter grounds surprise space thriller
Astronomers may have found rogue planets… in another galaxy
'Breathe' - A time-lapse video that will leave you unable to
The islands of yesterday and tomorrow
Ice prospecting on the Moon
Bummer update: HD 131399Ab is not an exoplanet. It’s a star.
Watch debris from a supernova explosion expand before your eyes!
No, the eclipse and a planetary alignment will not cause massive earthquakes. Sheesh.
Don't it make my red Moon blue: How to watch the total lunar eclipse on January 31
NGC 1398: An utterly perfect spiral galaxy
The private space company Rocket Lab sends a rocket to orbit
2017 was one of the hottest years on record
Deadpool wishes Betty White a Happy Birthday in loving Deadpool fashion
Mark Hamill reveals The Force Awakens' alternate ending that was changed at the last minute
Tabby’s Star: Sorry, folks, but it *really* isn't aliens
Optical illusion: Shade-changing shape-shifting gray turtles
Can life emerge after the fires of a supernova?
Did our first known interstellar visitor come from a dead star?
Putting the spin on a rogue planet
Two galaxies that did *not* pass in the night
Evangelizing climate science
President Trump's new National Space Policy isn't exactly a giant leap
Update: On the trail of an exomoon
The immensity of the Universe, and our place in it
It's a bird! It's a UFO! It's … a Falcon 9 rocket!
The kids of IT share who they want to play them as adults in the sequel
Happy Holidays from Bad Astronomy
Mark Hamill had a second, secret role in The Last Jedi
Sorry, President Trump, but climate change very much *is* a threat to national security
The star HD 4113 is way, *way* more than meets the eye
Disney weighs in on divided audience response to Star Wars: The Last Jedi
A Little Light Music — The Electromagnetic Spectrum, the Musical
Iridescence, like a candle in the wind
And Kepler-90i makes eight: Another eight-planet solar system found!
Blue Origin flies again: New Shepard rocket launches for a seventh time
This nebula is in our galaxy, not one far, far away
86 stars get new names
Glorious time-lapse video: Kaibab Requiem
Diving into Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Why do asteroids explode high in the atmosphere?
The first Twitter reactions to The Last Jedi are here and guys, Rian Johnson may have made the best Star Wars of all time
Swole star
A nearby star walks over the Sun's grave
Ryan Reynolds makes Deadpool crack (naturally) about potential Disney-Fox merger
Twin super-Earths around a nearby star make our solar system look weird
The black hole on the edge of forever
A thorough examination of The Shape of Water's sex scene and Fish Man anatomy
Stunning art, cutting-edge science
When black holes photobomb a galaxy
A lump of solar system coal
O, Christmas Tree Cluster
Voyager 1 turns on its thrusters after 37 years in the cold and dark
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Nebula
Elon Musk: On the Roadster to Mars
Two galaxies that pass in the night. Rapidly.
In the shadow of fluctus
Scaling the solar system
Science is in the air
Gravity warps a supernova into a quadruple play
To search for the one-armed spiral…
The shape of the Milky Way: Mapping the far side of the galaxy
You think your family’s Turkey Day dinner is rough? Try what HD 172555 is serving.
Jaw-dropping time-lapse of clouds over the Rocky Mountains at sunset
So long, rock from an alien solar system. I mean that literally: So. Long.
No, that's not a stagehand in an Apollo astronaut photo
Ho hum, just another black hole merger that blasted out soul-crushing amounts of energy and shook the fabric of reality
Watch NASA test a supersonic Mars mission parachute in super slow motion
A nearby Earth-sized planet has been found… and it *may* be a nice place to live
A new observatory keeps a very, very large eye on the sky
The star that blew up a little...then blew up a lot
Ethereal echoes from a dying star
A comet true as the north star
Magnificent chaos reigns at Jupiter's poles
Help name a rock in the outer solar system!
An interstellar rock gets a name
A blue scorpion over South America
The first evidence of planets around another star was found in… 1917?
James Webb Space Telescope made in the shade
That Thor: Ragnarok mid-credits scene? Marvel's Kevin Feige explains what you saw
A plume erupts from a comet, pressured from below
Bob was almost headed for something much darker in Stranger Things 2
The 100 megapixel Moon
Little star, big planet
Incredible time-lapse video: Monsoon IV
Go out tonight and observe the Moon!
BREAKING! Have astronomers discovered our first interstellar visitor? NOTE: Not aliens
Game of Thrones fans just stumbled across a tragic little easter egg planted years ago
The Earth is under no obligation to coddle us
A perfect morning, wrapped up in a fogbow
What causes lift?
Sixty Symbols: How do clouds make waves?
BIG NEWS: For the first time, astronomers detect gravitational waves from two neutron stars crashing together!
Ceres harvests a series of names
Gravity betrays the presence of a planet orbiting a binary star 10,000 light years from Earth
A weird, distant potato-shaped world gets weirder: Haumea has rings!
One last look at Saturn
Jovian chaos
More OSIRIS-REx parting shots: Earth, Moon, and Earth+Moon
Air de lune
Amazon's Man in the High Castle gets Season 3 trailer, 2018 release window
High school kids get video of the eclipse… from 32,000 meters above the Earth!
A massive, violent star blooms
Netflix raising prices: Your next Stranger Things binge is going to cost a little more
I'm not saying it's aliens... because it's more likely a dust ring around Tabby's Star causing it to act weird
Two comets and the Seven Sisters
Is the Nobel Prize really all it's cracked up to be?
There is a hierarchy to the Universe
A last good bye, again, from Rosetta
Astronomers spot the most distant active inbound comet ever - 2.5 *billion* km away!
Here is the final resting place of SMART-1 on the Moon
A tiny wiggle reveals a HUGE merger of black holes - the fourth ever seen
OSIRIS-REx snapped a pic of the Earth as it passed by
Pitch black planet
A binary asteroid that’s actually a binary comet
OSIRIS-REx gets flung by the Earth Friday!
Will the Earth be destroyed this Saturday? Hint: No.
UK media watchdog rules Daily Mail climate science denial article was 'significantly misleading'
0.5 seconds in the Sun
Pluto's posse
Good night, Saturn
Galactic Archipelago
Parallel galaxies
Now is EXACTLY the time we should be talking about climate change
25 insane on-screen deaths from the last 25 years
Climate science denier Rep. Jim Bridenstine to be nominated as NASA's chief
Close encounter by the (big!) asteroid Florence
Titanic Occultation
Ghost planet
Let's give the Moon some radar love, too
Raiders of the Lost Nova
Standing under the shadow of the Moon: Thoughts on totality
When the Moon ate the Sun
Astronomers discover a new type of star: BLAPs
Special report: Let your kids see the eclipse!
A distant galaxy pushes Hubble beyond its limits
Are you “Lost in Light”?
Why so Sirius?
Seeing Einstein's hand in stars orbiting a supermassive black hole
A 500 trillion km long streamer of ammonia in Orion
Why did single cells start to cooperate?
The loneliest (nearby) galaxy
The planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be older than Earth!
Seeing through the Meathook Galaxy
Two space rocks will (safely!) buzz Earth this fall
Spin zone: The Sun’s core rotates four times faster than the surface
Is New Horizons’ next target a binary relic of the ancient solar system?
Half a lunar orbit to go before the solar eclipse! In the meantime, here's a lunar eclipse.
Time-lapse video: Set yourself “Adrift”
Can you make your brain *not* see this circle illusion?
Astronomers find the (maybe) smallest star ever seen.
Storm chasing time-lapse video: Pursuit
Rep. Lamar Smith thinks global warming is awesome
Horseshoe galaxies and hand grenades
Have astronomers found evidence for an exomoon? Maaaaaaaybe.
Mea Culpa: Asteroid vs. Satellite
100 billion brown dwarfs lurk in the galaxy
Believe it or not, these planetary pictures were taken from Earth!
The Great American Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 (Part 2)
The Great American Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 (Part 1)
'Citizen scientists' find a nearby brown dwarf
The wink of a star reveals a distant target for New Horizons
LISA will fly and listen for black holes eating each other
Martin Landau: 1928–2017
Update ExoMars: Red Planet goes behind Sun, still infested with alien robots
Stellar cannonballs may be invaders from another galaxy
The Great. Red. Spot.
Ten things you don’t know about asteroids (and impacts thereof)
"Kaibab Elegy": The most beautiful example of fluid dynamics you’ll see
The farthest star
Earth's equatorial belt ... of satellites
Celestial sleuthing around a spectacular spiral galaxy
Rolling with the shutter
Will the EPA handle climate change honestly? Have some doubt.
Get ready to see Jupiter's Great Red Spot up close and personal
Celestial fireworks pop off in a cosmic train wreck
Sauron’s Eye never looked so good: New observations of Fomalhaut’s dusty, icy ring
Betelgeuse is lumpy! Except not really!
The planets, like grains of sand
Going full circle: A rainbow all the way around. Kinda.
Reflections on a remote, dusty, Martian ridge: Mars Curiosity rover seen from orbit
Incredible time-lapse video: A supercell forms
A gigantic black hole finds its long-lost, and slightly less gigantic, sibling
WD 1202 is a weird binary: One of the stars used to be inside the other one!
A passel of new planets shows our solar system is very weird, and we don't know why
Astrophoto: From Earth, Saturn!
The central peaks of Tycho
Astrophoto: A galaxy living on the edge
Science out an airplane window: The case of the floating, stationary, disconnected, warped propeller blades
How old is Jupiter?
Amazing Hubble astrovideo: Two brown dwarfs dance across the sky
Amazing video: A SpaceX Dragon blows its cover
Did life here begin ... out there? Maybe its precursors did.
Einstein was right (again)! Astronomers watch as a star’s gravity bends light from another star
When the stars align ... well, one star with a hundred billion stars.
Time-lapse animation: Waves of fiery clouds undulate across the sky
Wrath of Khan at 35: Entering the Mutara Nebula
We’ll never have Paris: Trump pulls the US out of international climate accord
A pair of merging black holes 3 billion light years away sent ripples of spacetime through the Earth
Astronomers may have seen a star collapse directly to a black hole
We knew Jupiter was weird. Now we're finding out HOW weird.
In space, no one can hear when you're hit by a meteoroid. Except that one time when LRO was hit.
Summer comes to Saturn
Star Wars 40th anniversary: That’s no moon ... but what if it were?
OK, it's still not aliens, but we're finally catching Tabby’s Star in the act
Catching the (meteor) train
Astronomers find a moon for a distant, frigid world
Poli'ahu: Time-lapse of telescopes and stars dancing under Hawaiian skies
Spaceships rendezvous as they sail into the sunset
New measles and chicken pox outbreaks in the U.S., and both are linked to vaccine refusal
Space bender: A galaxy cluster distorts the fabric of space, creating beautiful patterns of light
Astrophoto: Eight planets and a Moon, from east to west
What do we do about the onslaught of attacks on science?
My God. It's full of propellers.
Astrophoto: The Big Dipper over Chile ... barely.
No, we haven’t found signs of life – alien or otherwise - in the solar system
Colliding clusters of galaxies make waves ... gorgeous, gorgeous waves
Skyglow: Capturing the glory of our disappearing skies
Star Wars: Was it really a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?
Scholarships Against Humanity: The card game for horrible people just awarded a full college scholarship to a young scientist
Declassified nuclear weapon test footage is scientifically fascinating and existentially terrifying
All the fake news that’s fit to print: Why is The New York Times printing climate science denial?
Cassini's (first) deep dive above Saturn's clouds
Caught on camera: A Martian Opportunity hole-in-one
The sky is filled with warm, fuzzy gas
Marching for science
A bursting star in a starburst galaxy
Bill Nye Saves the World!
2014 JO25 is a kilometer-wide asteroid that flew just 1.8 million km past Earth yesterday
… and Proxima makes three: Alpha Centauri really is a triple star!
NGC 4707: A lovely galaxy with a lot more going on than meets the eye
Another flying saucer invades Saturn. Or ravioli.
What will the sky look like in five million years?
Distant solar system object 2014 UZ224 is not terribly big but at least it's really really cold
500 years ago, a huge multi-star collision in Orion triggered a ridiculously powerful cosmic explosion
Get ready to say farewell to Cassini
Astronomers find an atmosphere around a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet! But what's it made of?
BA product review: Celestron's EclipSmart solar viewing binoculars
Opposing Jupiter: Hubble's view of the largest planet in the solar system
Somewhere over the fogbow
The star EZ Canis Majoris is blowing an immense bubble in space, and you do NOT want to be around when it pops.
In 2013, an asteroid exploded. Now we know why: It spun itself to death.
A tiny galaxy speaks loudly and carries a gigantic black hole
Stunning astrophotos: Orion in context, and in detail
Meet Jupiter’s backwards little friend: Asteroid 2015 BZ509
SpaceX plans to reuse a rocket booster for launch for the first time on Thursday
When it comes to climate change, some people just want to watch the world burn
Goodnight, Pluto
A 3 billion solar mass black hole rockets out of a galaxy at 8 million kilometers per hour. Yes, seriously.
Our planet is melting at both ends: Arctic and Antarctica hit record low ice extents
CFBDSIR 2149-0403: A mystery lurks 1800 trillion kilometers from Earth
Trump's 2018 NASA budget: The good, the bad, and the very, very ugly
One star, two star, red star, blue star
Hey, flat Earthers! You chose the wrong planet!
Goodbye, Mimas, and thanks for all the Star Wars jokes
Astronomers find a black hole eating a white dwarf
A whole (galaxy of) new worlds: The A Capella Science of exoplanets
The bruised Earth: Solar eclipse seen from space
No, aliens haven't invaded Saturn: It's Pan, the flying saucer moon!
BREAKING NEWS: Scott Pruitt, head of EPA, doesn’t think carbon dioxide is the main driver of global warming
If we assume global warming is a hoax, what should we expect to see?
Mea culpa: Are exoplanets planets?
Soonish, a book about science making things better and/or worse
Does Ceres still have currently active (erupting!) cryovolcanoes?
Watch alien planets dance from across the gulf of space
If you liked the science in the movie Arrival, I want to have a (single) word with you
These strawberries aren't red. Seriously. They aren't.
It turns out methane CAN simply walk into Mordor
SpaceX announces it will send two 'private citizens' around the Moon in 2018
30 years after a star blew itself to shreds
Astronomers discover a new satellite for the Milky Way
A festival of clouds
Exoplanet news: SEVEN Earth-sized planets found orbiting a nearby star!
Redefining planets: An answer in search of a question
KaBLAM! A small asteroid carved out one of the youngest craters on Mars
SpaceX nails the landing after an historic launch
Dramatic grayscale time-lapse cloud animation: Pulse
The other Andromeda galaxy
Arrival - A not really Bad Astronomy review
Does Earth have a Trojan horde?
A journey to Jupiter, without leaving Earth
Will you be able to see tonight's deep penumbral lunar eclipse?
Mysterious "blue jets" blasting upwards from clouds seen from space
Jupiter from below
Sorry, climate change deniers, but the global warming 'pause' still never happened
Mind the 400 kilometer gap
Earth gets a close shave from the small asteroid 2017 BH30
Take a deep dive into the rings of Saturn
A galaxy with beautiful plumage
To Boldly Go
All Good Things
Syfy Wire welcomes Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
Shaking the Fabric of Reality
A distant galaxy's black hole is big, but not big enough