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Extremely rare astronomical event: Asteroid Leona to eclipse red supergiant Betelgeuse
An extremely rare celestial event will unfold at the beginning of next week as the main…
What Could a Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Do?
Telescopes have come a long way in a little over four hundred years! It was 1608…
Iran Sent a Capsule Capable of Holding Animals into Orbit.
Despite popular opinion, the first animals in space were not dogs or chimps, they were fruit…
If Our Part of the Universe is Less Dense, Would That Explain the Hubble Tension?
In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre made a startling discovery that forever changed our…
A Star Near the Center of the Milky Way is a Visitor from Beyond
There’s an alien red giant star orbiting in the center of our galaxy. It’s called S0-6…
Did the Last Great Galactic Merger Create the Milky Way’s Bar?
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. More specifically, it is a barred spiral galaxy, meaning…
The International Space Station Celebrates 25 Years in Space
NASA recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) with a space-to-Earth call…
Fly Slowly Through Enceladus’ Plumes to Detect Life
Enceladus is blasting water into space from the jets at its southern pole. This makes it…
OSIRIS-REx Failed to Deploy its Drogue Chute Properly. Now NASA has Figured out Why
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a precious sample of rocky material from asteroid…