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NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

With Artemis II, SLS could become the most powerful rocket ever to launch humans. Its four main engines burn roughly 700,000 ...

Saturn will appear alongside the moon in Nevada skies during a planetary conjunction this January. Here’s how to spot it and ...

Arizona is home to 22 dark sky locations that may offer the clearest views of planetary conjunction between Saturn and the ...

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

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Every element that forms your body, every element that formed anything on earth was produced in the heart of a star somewhere ...

Astronomers have spotted something unusual, a planet that doesn’t orbit any star. It’s just drifting alone through space. About the size of Saturn, this planet is giving scientists a rare peek at ...

Simultaneous ground- and space-based observations of a newly discovered free-floating planet have enabled direct measurement of its mass and distance from Earth, according to a new study. The findings ...