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Posted on December 2, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies On a Saturday in September in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a dozen people navigated through the woods to the shore of Lake Superior, where the … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 4, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan George F. Smoot, Who Showed How the Cosmos Began, Is Dead at 80 George F. Smoot, an American physicist and Nobel laureate who helped elucidate the story of cosmic creation, providing evidence of what … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 5, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Something Very Tiny Is Following Earth Around the Sun The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 1, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been analyzing insights from Webb’s data, and … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 12, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Possible Planet Is Spotted Around Neighboring Alpha Centauri Star Alpha Centauri has gripped the imaginations of sci-fi aficionados for decades. Only four light-years from Earth, the three-star system inspires fictional alien worlds and journeys through interstellar space….more A … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 3, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Nothing is as we thought Do we know everything about the Milky Way? A team of astronomers has arrived to change everything we know about our universe, and they have found strong evidence that super-Earths (planets … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 2, 2025 by ST Editors

compiled by Arlene & David Kaplan Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on … Continue reading →

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