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December 2025: What's in the sky this month? The giant planets delight overnight and the Geminids put on a show

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

This Space Telescope’s Entire Job Is to Search For Signs of Life On 20 Distant Planets

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...