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Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...
"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...
The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...
Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...
In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...
From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which ...
Dozens of people captured the meteor falling from the sky on their cellphones last week. WRDW’s sister station got a look at it up close in the Tellus Science Museum.