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The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information abou

Help classify galaxies via the Internet.

University specialists are demonstrating what meteorites look like on the ground and reaping the ben

Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover c

A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.

Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array

A fierce backlash has begun against the decision by astronomers to strip Pluto of its status as a pl

European astronomers are planning to build an optical telescope that is four times bigger than any i

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The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn

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Comet 73P is continuing its glorious disintegration as it flies by Earth – the comet is now in at

Earlier this year, astronomers reported that a second "red spot" - a giant storm - had appeared on J

The Binary Research Institute (BRI) has found that orbital characteristics of the recently discovere

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