The Lucy spacecraft is heading to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But now it made its 2nd asteroid encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy. It's thought be similar to what our own Milky Way galaxy looked like, 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Scientists at The University of Warwick in the U.K. said they've identified 2 nearby doomed stars headed toward a supernova explosion in about 23 billion years.
ESO's Paranal Observatory, in Chile's Atacama Desert, has some of the world's clearest and darkest skies. But a new construction project now threatens them.
This elliptical galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, warping the light from a distant spiral galaxy and allowing us to see it in the form of an Einstein ring.
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