A star-forming galaxy in the early universe might have sent a ghostly particle known as a neutrino crashing into the ice at Earth’s South Pole, after an 11 billion-year journey through space.

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On June 17th, much of North America can watch the Moon occult Venus in the daytime sky. All you need are binoculars.

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A deep spectrum of a mysterious "little red dot" reveals a supermassive black hole cocooned in gas so dense it's opaque — but glowing in the infrared.

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A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met a violent end in the earliest days of the solar system.

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The three planets in the western twilight are pulling away from each other now. On Wednesday, the Moon will occult Venus in daylight.

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Australia's Molonglo Observatory was saved from retirement; now, it holds the promise of future radio observations.

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Meet Callisto, the heavily cratered moon that's the most distant of the Galilean satellites from Jupiter.

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Astronomer and comet-hunter Alan Hale passed away on Saturday, June 6th, at 68 years old in his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.

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The satellites being launched by Amazon are brighter than IAU-recommended limits — which means they'll interfere with astronomy.

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Astronomers have released the newest list of gravitational-wave detections, almost doubling the number of known signals from colliding black holes.

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Bright Venus and Jupiter pass through conjunction in twilight this week, while Mercury, Pollux, and Castor watch them from nearby.

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