See Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars this month. Also, see the Winter Stars, Winter Triangle, the Geminid Meteor Shower. <b<br/>r/>

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The Sahara was once home to hippos.

Astronauts on the International Space Station have a zero-g cup for their java.<b<br/>r/>

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Learn about the mission profile about United's Launch Alliance - the 2nd certification flight of the Vulcan rocket. <b<br/>r/>

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Contrary to popular belief, eating turkey isn't the main reason you feel sleepy after a Thanksgiving feast.

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos.



See an orbit animation of the estimated 37...

On November 21, 1676, the Danish astronomer Ole Rømer discovered the speed of light.



Before Rømer figured it out, scientists thought that light travels instantaneously, or infinitely fast. Rømer disproved this almost by...

Brain transplants are a long way from being feasible, and even if the technical challenges could be overcome, there are ethical issues to grapple with.

The jets dubbed Porphyrion stretch for 23 million light years, equal to 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. They erupted from a black hole that existed when the universe was half its current age.



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Test your creature knowledge.

SpaceX's Launch Pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida has been fitted with a chute for astronauts to use in case of emergency.<b<br/>r/>

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A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

With the cost of energy rising, It’s important to have all the facts before turning up the thermostat. We look at when you should put your heating on, how high to set it and other ways to heat a room

Take a tour of the Hydra I galaxy cluster. A galaxy in the region, NGC 3312, is "losing cold gas as it moves through the hot gas within the cluster," according to the European Southern Observatory.



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NASA released full color James Webb Space Telescope images of the Carina Nebula, exoplanet WASP-96 b, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan’s Quintet and SMACS 0723. Here's a preview of the 5 targets from previous observations and an artist...

Eight of the 10 costliest natural disasters in U.S. history have been hurricanes, and damage from Hurricane Ian cost nearly $113 billion dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster in America in 2022, and the third most costly...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray Telescope team.



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Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN mission have been used to help unravel the mystery of Mars' escaping water. <b<br/>r/>

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.



Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and

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Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. <b<br/>r/>

Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route to continue exploring Mount Sharp.



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Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary.



Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation:...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.



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Footage from the Tiangong space station shows Shenzhou 18 crew members — commander Ye Guangfu and cremates Li Cong and Li Guangsu — engaged in research on the adaptability of anaerobic archaea.



The research aims to test...