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A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

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The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

An international team of researchers, including those from the University of Michigan, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the birth of planets around the young star system PDS ...

Discover the latest on Asteroid 2024 YR4's possible collision with Earth in 2032. NASA closely watching with James Webb Space ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...