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Spent SpaceX Falcon 9 Stage Projected to Hit the Moon on August 5

The forecast, based on extensive telescope tracking, points to a harmless, hard-to-see strike near Einstein crater.

ALMA Finds Semi-Heavy Water in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Dark Energy Camera Reveals Vast Halo and Stellar Stream Around Sombrero Galaxy

DECam Image Reveals Sombrero Galaxy’s Giant Halo and Stellar Stream

JWST Studies Report Strongest Evidence Yet of Population III Stars Near GN‑z11

Global Collaboration Pins Local Hubble Constant at 73.50 ± 0.81 km/s/Mpc With 1% Precision

HETDEX Maps 33,000 Hydrogen Halos Around Early Galaxies

Astronomers Find Most Pristine Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Comet MAPS Skims the Sun on Saturday With Fate Uncertain

Hubble Spots First Known Comet Spin Reversal

Hubble Confirms First-Ever Spin Reversal of Comet 41P

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Hubble Maps 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula

Astronomers Publish Evidence of Planetary Collision Around Sun-Like Star

Nature Study Links Superluminous Supernova to Newborn Magnetar Through Relativistic 'Chirp'

Magnetar ‘Chirp’ Identified in Superluminous Supernova as Short GRB Localized to Tidal-Stream Dwarf

Webb Finds Dust-Obscured Red Supergiant Behind 2025 Supernova, a First for the Telescope

New Spectra Challenge ‘Yellow Hypergiant’ Claim for Colossal LMC Star WOH G64

Distant Quasar Defies Models With 13× Eddington Growth and Powerful Jets

JWST Spots Most Distant ‘Jellyfish’ Galaxy Candidate at Redshift 1.156