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Mercury reaches its highest point in the sky this weekend. Here's how to see it.
By Jamie Carter published
A bright, yellowish spot in the morning sky is actually Mercury making a rare daytime appearance. Here's how to see it at its highest and brightest this week.

Nuclear 'pasta' cooked up by dead stars could unravel the secrets of stellar afterlife
By Paul Sutter published
In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange 'pasta' shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

Haunting new moon images reveal enormous crater deeper than the Grand Canyon near the lunar south pole
By Jeff Spry published
This striking composite shot of the lunar south pole appears in National Geographic Magazine's special space issue out on Sept. 19.

Watch: NASA spacecraft flies through a violent solar explosion for 1st time ever — and survives unscathed
By Ben Turner published
NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged through a hellish coronal mass ejection (CME) to capture its mysterious swirlings on film.

'Ghost' particles from the sun could lead us straight to an invisible trove of dark matter
By Paul Sutter published
New research suggests that the sun may hold dark matter in its fiery heart, and ghostly particles called neutrinos could lead us to it.

'Grand cosmic fireworks': See the stunning winners of the 2023 astronomy photo of the year contest
By Josh Dinner published
The winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 15th annual astrophotography contest will blow you away.

Green comet Nishimura survives its superheated slingshot around the sun. Will we get another chance to see it?
By Harry Baker published
Comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, has survived its closest approach to the sun and will brighten over the next week. But is it still visible from Earth?

James Webb telescope snaps rainbow 'lightsaber' shockwaves shooting out of a newborn sun-like star
By Harry Baker published
The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of a young sun-like protostar spitting out gas and dust that forms stunning shockwaves when viewed in infrared.
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