It Came From a Black Hole, and Landed in Antarctica
For the first time, astronomers followed cosmic neutrinos into the fire-spitting heart of a supermassive blazar.
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CreditNASA Goddard NASA Again Delays Launch of Troubled Webb Telescope; Cost Estimate Rises to $9.7 Billion
The successor to the Hubble has had a series of mishaps during testing. An independent review board pushed back the launch for three years.
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Credit Hayabusa2 Arrives at Asteroid Ryugu
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has arrived at Ryugu, an asteroid thought to contain material from the early solar system.
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An Alien Visitor Turns Out to Be a Comet
First Oumuamua was an alien comet, then maybe a spaceship, then an asteroid, now it’s a comet from way, way beyond.
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NRAO/AUI/NSF Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan Myhrvold is back, and his papers have passed peer review.
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech, via Associated Press A Huge Dust Storm on Mars Is Threatening NASA’s Opportunity Rover
The storm, which has blanketed a quarter of the planet, has plunged the rover into a “dark, perpetual night.”
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CreditY. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO Extremely Large, Extremely Expensive: The Race for the Next Giant Telescopes
Even as astronomers await a verdict on construction of a huge telescope on Mauna Kea, they are still trying to figure out how to pay for the next stargazing Goliaths.
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Life on Mars? Rover’s Latest Discovery Puts It ‘On the Table’
The identification of organic molecules in rocks on the red planet does not necessarily point to life there, past or present, but does indicate that some of the building blocks were present.
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CreditAxiom Space The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet
Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech New Dive Into Old Data Finds Plumes Erupt From Jupiter’s Moon Europa
A re-examination of old data shows a NASA spacecraft may have flown through a plume in 1997. The plumes could offer hints of life on the ice-encrusted moon.
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The InSight spacecraft is heading to Mars to listen for marsquakes and study the planet’s structure.
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CreditMatt Dunham/Reuters Stephen Hawking Taught Us a Lot About How to Live
The cosmologist not only overturned our imaginations, he became an icon of mystery, curiosity and determination to understand this place we are in.
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CreditJoe Skipper/Reuters Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX’s Ambition Into Orbit
Elon Musk disrupted the business of sending rockets into space and has now achieved a milestone in spaceflight by launching the most powerful rocket currently operating in the world.
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CreditJimmy Westlake/NASA Sync your calendar with the solar system
Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that's out of this world.
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Credit ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Is Still the ‘Ultimate Trip’
The rerelease of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece encourages us to reflect again on where we’re coming from and where we’re going.
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Credit Meet TESS, Seeker of Alien Worlds
NASA’s new spacecraft, to be launched next month, will give scientists a much clearer view of the planets orbiting stars near to us.
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Credit Astronomers’ Dark Energy Hopes Fade to Gray
The Wfirst project, which would have investigated the force of dark energy in the universe and searched for more planets, has been cut from NASA’s proposed budget.
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Credit Magnetic Secrets of Mysterious Radio Bursts in a Faraway Galaxy
Black holes or neutron stars behaving wildly are the likely suspects of a repetitious burst of cosmic energy 3 billion light years away, astronomers say.
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Credit U.F.O.s: Is This All There Is?
Astronomers have their noses pressed against the windows of the unknown, wanting to believe in life elsewhere just like many outer space enthusiasts.
