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After months of research, the IAUs Working Group on Star Names has released a catalog that restored the assigned traditional names to 227 stars The post 227 Stars Given Names By International Astronomical Union appeared ...

An Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft deployed four small satellites for Spire Global Nov. 25, the first time a cargo vessel deployed satellites above the orbit of the International Space Station. SpaceNews.com

' Scientists often search for the answer to the origins of life on Earth on other planets or moons in our solar system. If we want to see whether our theories are right, we need to find another example of...

Extraordinary new imageshows a proto-stellar disk fragmenting into multiple stars --

"The universe isn't the same everywhere," said Richard O'Shaughnessy, assistant professor in RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences. Massive stars that collapse upon themselves and end their lives as black holes, like the...

The Milky Way turns out to be part of a massive supercluster of galaxies that forms one of the largest known structures in the universe. This discovery is only the beginning of a new effort to map... --

The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is sinking by a few centimetres a year. Studying the city is helping scientists to improve the monitoring of urban ...

Longtime BABlogee and music composer Greg La Traille sent me a note letting me know about an amazing art exhibit in Zürich, Switzerland called "Starfield", but really it should be called "Star Swing". Why? Well, for one...

This image of M33 was taken by astrophotographer Chris Schur taken from Payson, Arizona in October 2016.