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"The great conjunction" of 2020

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Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

We just met Planet Nine's twin

Milky Way Galaxy (Getty Images)

A new atlas of the universe

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A computer simulation of the surface of the planet Venus, circa 1990. (Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scientific drama on Venus continues

This illustration shows the lightning phenomenon known as a sprite and what a sprite could look like in Jupiter's atmosphere. Named after a mischievous, quick-witted character in English folklore, sprites last for only a few milliseconds. They feature a central blob of light with long tendrils of light extending down toward the ground and upward. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)

Sprites haunt Jupiter’s atmosphere

Computer illustration of a view across the rocky surface of the planet Venus, showing clouds of sulphuric acid obscuring the Sun. (Getty Images)

Cold water on possibility of Venus life

This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water. (NASA/Daniel Rutter)

Exploring a watery moon

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA craft grabs rocks from asteroid

Image of a cluster of galaxies from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (NASA)

The first galaxies in the universe

(Getty/3quarks)

A lot of liquid water may exist on Mars

In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

A planet that shouldn't exist... does

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Planet Venus (Getty Images)

Why there may be life on Venus

The Nebra Sky Disk stands in a glass display case (Anne Pollmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bronze Age astronomy gets rewritten

Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other (Getty Images)

The missing type of black hole — found

The sky over a solar tower of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory under the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in the village of Nauchny, Bakhchisaray District, southwestern Crimea. (Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)

Astronomers warn: "the sky has changed'"

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Asteroid (Getty Images)

Election Day asteroid: Harmless!

Young amateur astronomer on a school yard in Lichtenberg watching the moon with a telescope (Rolf Schulten/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The latest quarantine escape? Stargazing

Ashlie D. Stevens

An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The forecast on Jupiter

Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

What a rare new supernova has revealed

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Communications satellite orbiting Earth (Getty Images)

Amazon is sending satellites into space

The Australian Square Kilometre Array (ESO/CSIRO)

"Odd Radio Circles" perplex astronomers

mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

A giant star disappears without a trace

Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

What a new space radio signal tells us

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