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Astronomers know the fate of Sun-like and massive stars, but what about the majority of stars — the M-class red dwarfs? Will they also become giants or just flicker out?

Robotic Spaceflight

Web Extra: Hubble images: from data to dramatic scenes

Rainy-day Web surfing

How is it that in space, despite the Sun’s presence, the surroundings look black? Apollo photos show a black sky, even with strong sunlight on the surface.

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

A brief glimpse of totality

The SETI Institute is after alien signals. Assuming another world is beaming a 1-million-watt radio signal in our direction, how far away can that source be before the signal is lost in intergalactic noise?

Dark vs. super dark

Into the void

Robotic Spaceflight

Web Extra: Relive the Hubble servicing missions

Robotic Spaceflight

Tour Hubble’s iconic images

Weird Object: The Antennae Galaxies

Exoplanets, Planets, Stars

Garik Israelian: From Stars to the Starmus Festival