Space was so much simpler when I was a kid. Back in the 1980s, we still hoped to find habitable planets around every star.

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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its scientific mission because the spacecraft is now orbiting less than 171 ...

NASA's Swift observatory has made its last observation after a robotic rescue failed, and atmospheric drag will pull it down within weeks. It leaves behind more ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s detection of a possible dwarf planet is just the start of many more discoveries in our cosmic ...

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Telescope discovered a possible new dwarf planet that, if confirmed, could join 5 others in our solar system.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era ...

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles ...