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Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has long proselytized for the cause of interplanetary colonization. If Earth gets whacked by a giant space rock, a cataclysmic solar storm cripples human…
Ordinary matter may only make up 5 percent of the mass of the Universe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we know where it all is. In fact, for 20 years,…
A mysterious cataclysm in a neighboring galaxy was spotted in the sky above Hawaii last week, sending astronomers around the world scrambling to understand the source of the staggeringly brilliant…
Several Russian cities had a fantastic light show last Thursday, as a bright meteor burst into a fireball over the landscape. And once again, no one saw it coming until…
July is shaping up to be an excellent month for astronomy fans. Overnight on July 27 and 28, skywatchers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be treated to the longest lunar…