Last summer, the Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus on its way to fly closer to the Sun. In a bit of a surprise, one of the spacecraft’s cameras, the...
Mars’ surface is a harsh environment for life.* But life on Earth is notoriously resilient as well.* No one is quite sure yet how microbes from Earth...
It was the brightest supernova in nearly 400 years when it lit the skies of the southern hemisphere in February 1987. Supernova 1987A – the explosion...
Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and teasing...
The Space Court Foundation has launched a new series titled Women of Color in Space! Their first interview with Ruvimbo Samanga is now available for...
New parallax measurements of Cygnus X-1 by the VLBA find it is more distant than we thought, and therefore more massive.
The post Cygnus X-1 was the...
If the Roman Empire had been able to launch a satellite in a relatively high Low Earth Orbit – say about 1,200 km (750 miles) in altitude – only now...
Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets relatively close to Earth.
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