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Hubble Space Telescope observations of the Sombrero galaxy’s extended halo find surprising hints of turbulent mergers in the distant past.

With few options remaining, engineers will use the InSight Mars lander’s robot arm to help push a stalled heat probe below the surface.

Two of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes team up to study hundreds of protostars and infant solar systems in the Orion Molecular Clouds.

Heather Couper, one of the UK’s most prolific astronomy broadcasters and writers, who inspired many to take up stargazing, has died at the age of 70.

Astronomers detect auroral interactions between a red dwarf and an unseen exoplanet, providing a new tool for studying exoplanet habitability.

Astronomers capture dramatic before-and-after views of the red supergiant Betelgeuse, showing major changes in brightness and shape.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, designed to collect soil samples for eventual return to Earth, is now in Cape Canaveral for final launch preparations.

NASA has selected four possible planetary science missions for further evaluation, two focused on Venus, one on volcanic Io and one on icy Triton.

NASA releases a reprocessed version of the iconic “pale blue dot” portrait of Earth as imaged by the Voyager 1 probe in 1990.

The International Astronomical Union raises more red flags about the possible impact of large satellite constellations on Earth-based astronomy.