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Watch April's Full Pink 'micromoon' rise this weekend with a free telescope livestream

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Full Pink Moon rises Saturday (April 12), marking the farthest, smallest and faintest full moon of the year, and you can watch it live online.

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a comet with a long tail streaks through a star filled sky above trees.

What to expect from the newfound Comet Swan: An observer's guide

By Joe Rao published

Here's an observers' guide to the newly discovered Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN), which is visible in northern skies right now.

Comets
A monster black hole awakens and begins blasting out X-ray bursts

NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have used space-based telescopes, including NASA's Swift X-ray observatory, to watch a monster black hole spring to life with powerful X-ray eruptions.

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Trump administration's NOAA layoffs affected the space weather service that tracks solar storms

By Meredith Garofalo published

Experts share why Trump-mandated cuts to the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center share is a big deal.

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An image of the Chang'e 6 lander on the lunar surface at the far side of the moon

China's Chang'e 6 lunar samples suggest our moon is debris from an ancient Earth impact

By Keith Cooper published

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the lunar farside mantle is much more depleted compared to the nearside.

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Nearby exoplanet could offer clues about atmospheres around hot, rocky alien worlds

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their own "air."

Exoplanets
a comet with a long tail streaks through a star filled sky above trees.

Newly discovered Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) captured in stunning photo blazing across UK skies

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The striking Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) photograph was captured by astrophotographer Josh Dury at 4:50 a.m. local time on April 9.

Comets
An artist's illustration of the hot Jupiter exoplanet CoRoT 2b, which has a strange westward-blowing hotspot in its atmosphere, scientists say.

How science gets tested on alien worlds: 'We quickly realize how much there is yet to discover'

By Victoria Corless published

New insights into the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres indicates planet-wide rainfall might take place following hydrogen atmosphere and water mixing.

Exoplanets
A visualization of the Earth toward the right, the moon in the center and the asteroid in the foreground toward the left.

We now know the shape of notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 that dominated headlines recently — it's probably 'suburban,' too

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for Earth-crossing space rocks, a new study finds.

Asteroids
An illustration of a rotating black hole blasting jets from its poles

Could we use black holes to power future human civilizations? 'There is no limitation to extracting the enormous energy from a rotating black hole'

By Robert Lea published

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human civilisation?

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