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The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

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New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

The sight of the Milky Way stretching across the night sky is iconic, but some places offer a better view of it than others. These locations are among the best.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

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Actor Pedro Pascal narrates the time-traveling journey through space at the American Museum of Natural History.