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Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

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A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

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From a pumpkin crawl to an astronomy science fair, here are several no-cost events and activities across Greater Boston Oct.

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

A: Multi-messenger astronomy is a relatively new way to study the universe by using more than one kind of “messenger” from space. For a long time, astronomy was almost entirely based on light, i.e.