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Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

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NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

A new study shows black holes can form without singularities, using only modifications to Einstein’s equations.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could help scientists to discover the invisible ‘dark energy’ that is powering the ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...