Space

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Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical

About 7,500 light years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows

A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to inhabit miniature

Some of the apparent quirks of Uranus may be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew

The first samples from the far side of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south

Mars’ moons may be the remnants of an asteroid with a rogue star that came too close to the Red

How to kill an asteroidRobin George AndrewsWW Norton & Co., $29.99 The dinosaurs met a gruesome death at the hands

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency’s mission,