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How to watch the Draconid meteor shower peak on Oct. 8 and 9 in the tail of a cosmic dragon.

Oct. 2’s annular solar eclipse saw a small-looking new moon cross the face of the sun to create a perfect circle for about six minutes.

The moon’s distance from Earth changes depending on where it is in its elliptical orbit.

NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2’s science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home.

New research can help us understand how supermassive black holes formed — and why many of them appear to be more massive than expected.

Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time

This living fossil can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it survived predatory dinosaurs.

Editor in chief Nancy Shute celebrates this year’s SN10: Scientists to Watch and novel approaches to research.

In control A high dose of the psychedelic psilocybin temporarily dissolves brain networks, Laura Sanders reported in “Psilocybin erases brain ‘fingerprints’” (SN: 8/10/24, p. 12). In the study, a generic form of the stimulant Ritalin served as a control against…

As satellite launches ramp up and the spacecraft clog the skies, astronomers fear for their data.