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Known as the "first person of astrotourism in China", Jiang Chenming has spent years chasing the fleeting brilliance of the ...

After years of traveling the globe in search of the darkest skies still possible in an increasingly bright world, I’ve ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

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Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.