Space & Astronomy

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Recent stories in Space & Astronomy: How to Spot the ‘Loneliest Star’ in the Autumn Night Sky; How to Get a Glimpse of Saturn's Rings This Week; 8 Night Sky Events to See in October, From Fiery Meteors to a Vanishing Star Cluster; There’s a Space Weapon Circling the Planet. Here's What We Know.; Venus Is Putting on a Dazzling Show This Month; Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe; How NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Will Investigate the Universe's Greatest Mysteries; 9 Night Sky Events to See in September, From the Harvest Moon to Venus at Its Brightest; Can Humans Get Pregnant in Space?; Pluto Got Demoted 20 Years Ago. We’re Still Not Sure What a Planet Really Is.; Look for the 'Summer Triangle' Stars. They Can Unlock the Rest of the Night Sky.; The Sun’s Magnetic Field is Behaving Oddly. Astronomers Still Don’t Know Why.; The Future of Space Travel Could Come Down to This Potato; How a Nat Geo Photographer Captured the Total Solar Eclipse; See Stunning Images of the Total Solar Eclipse From Nat Geo Photographers; A Spectacular Solar Eclipse is Coming. Here’s How to See It.; 9 Night Sky Events to See in August, from a Total Solar Eclipse to the Return of the Northern Lights; July’s double meteor shower could produce brilliant fireballs. Here's how to see them.; Artemis II astronauts share touching moon mission story in never-before-seen video; It’s one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?; This mysterious radio signal has puzzled astronomers for nearly 50 years; This Spanish city is the best place to watch the 2026 total solar eclipse; 8 night sky events to see in July, from twin meteor showers to the Milky Way's glittering core; How a Nat Geo photographer learned to live on Mars; Where might we find life in our solar system?