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Measuring Distances in the Universe With Fast Radio Bursts
Now and then there is a bright radio flash somewhere in the sky. It can last…
CERN Wants to Build an Enormous New Atom Smasher: the Future Circular Collider
One of my favourite science and engineering facts is that an underground river was frozen to…
Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew past Earth at 0.31 LD
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2024 CY1 flew past Earth at 07:24 UTC on February 12, 2024,…
NASA Gives Dreamchaser the Shakedown
It’s been a while since NASA has had a spaceplane on the launchpad but this now…
InSight mission confirms eight meteoroid impact events on Mars
A team of researchers utilizing data provided by NASA’s InSight mission has confirmed two new seismic…
Did the Galileo Mission Find Life on Earth?
In the Fall of 1989, the Galileo spacecraft was launched into space, bound for Jupiter and…
True colors of Uranus and Neptune revealed
Recent research led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the University of Oxford has unveiled that Neptune…
NASA’s JPL Lays Off Hundreds of Workers
In a disheartening turn of events, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has announced that it’s laying off…
First images from XRISM show detailed chemical maps of distant galaxies, paving a new path in X-ray astronomy
The XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a Japan-led observatory with collaboration from NASA and ESA,…