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A new smartphone capp called ZARTH uses the open-source Sky Map and adds data daily from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)’s robotic telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. ZARTH is short for ‘ZTF Augmented Reality Transient Hunter’, and is built along the lines of the augmented reality mobile game…

A ‘sturgeon moon’ and a ‘blue moon’ will both grace the night sky this month in a treat for moon gazers

Euclid's stunning seminal images confirm that the observatory's instruments are working as expected.

The European Space Agency's weather monitoring spacecraft Aeolus came to a fiery end on Friday, July 28, when it entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up.

There are usually three to four supermoons in a year; Al Jazeera explains the phenomenon.

A recent study suggests that advanced alien civilizations could keep their stars alive a few billion years longer, using methods we might be able to spot from Earth.

Watch Lance Armstrong and Andy Richter take out the trash in this exclusive clip for the new episode of Fox's sci-fi reality TV series, "Stars on Mars."

With unusually powerful magnetic fields, these stars seem to get a boost when their cores start to drift apart. Thus, they may not be the ideal hosts for habitable exoplanets.

Supermoons happen when the Full Moon coincides with the Moon's closest position to Earth. Now we get a Blue Moon supermoon.

Supermoons happen when the Full Moon coincides with the Moon's closest position to Earth. Now we get a Blue Moon supermoon.

Queen guitarist Brian May and the chief scientist of NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu — and it's not a PR stunt.