Sunspot AR4618 erupted with an M4.4-class solar flare causing a coronal mass ejection (CME) that may give Earth a glancing ...

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Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

University of California, Irvine. An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s temperate zone. The world, ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

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At the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, the CGSS runs a charity bake sale three times a year. For ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...