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Philo residents make their way down the sledding hill after photographing everyone on Monday, July 7, 2025. Philo residents ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

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Globular cluster M56 is a gorgeous object in Lyra the Lyre that anyone can observe with binoculars or a telescope.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.

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When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...