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Vera Rubin Will Generate a Mind-Boggling Amount of Data
When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory comes online in 2025, it will be one of the…
Hubble is Offline Because of a Problem with one of its Gyros
The rich flow of scientific data—and stunning images—that comes from the Hubble Space Telescope is being…
Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster
Pulsars are extreme objects. They’re what’s left over when a massive star collapses on itself and…
Fermi has Found More than 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars
In June 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope began surveying the cosmos to study some…
Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
Our search for life beyond Earth is still in its infancy. We’re focused on Mars and,…
The New Asteroid Moon Discovered by Lucy Just Got its Own Name
When NASA’s Lucy mission flew past asteroid Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023, it made the surprising…
Not Getting Enough Data From Mars? Set Up A Solar System Pony Express
Getting data in from deep space can be difficult. Almost all of our missions that have…
A Protoplanetary Disc Has Been Found… in Another Galaxy!
Astronomers have imaged dozens of protoplanetary discs around Milky Way stars, seeing them at all stages…
A Gamma-ray Burst Disturbed the Earth’s Ionosphere
You’d think that something happening billions of light-years away wouldn’t affect Earth, right? Well, in 2002,…