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When nighttime light disrupts the body’s natural rhythms, consequences may include a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a ...

Volcanoes may have been erupting on the Moon well into the age of the dinosaurs, new analysis of lunar samples suggests.

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Venus lingers after sunset, Saturn and Neptune reach opposition, and Mercury makes its best morning appearance in the ...

Over decades of observations across a broad range of wavelengths, M31 has unlocked our understanding of the vastness of the ...

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Take some time to point binoculars or a telescope at open cluster NGC 457, which lies in the constellation Cassiopeia. You’ll first notice a pair of bright stars that give this deep-sky object the ...

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Scientists first detected Ganymede’s aurorae from oxygen emissions approximately 20 years ago. The oxygen molecules are ...

Boeing Starliner astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain in space another six months, miss ...

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