15 Years of Data Reveal the Events Leading Up to Betelgeuse’s “Great Dimming”
Anyone who regularly watches the skies may well be familiar with the constellation Orion the hunter. It is one of…
A Giant Stream of Stars is Flowing in Deep Space
The space between galaxies has long been considered a dead area. Single rogue stars may pop stars may pop up…
Scientists Found Evidence Of A Nearby Kilonova 3.5 Million Years Ago
Most of the times astronomers reported dramatic, cataclysmic events like neutron star mergers or the creation of a black hole;…
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 that Dutch spectacle maker…
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 flies launched by the…
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 perception of the Universe.…
Did the Last Great Galactic Merger Create the Milky Way's Bar?
About 8-11 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy merged with the Milky Way, adding 50 billion solar masses of stars,…
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 and has chemical fingerprints…
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 between the 7-person Expedition…
Fly Slowly Through Enceladus' Plumes to Detect Life
Enceladus is blasting water into space from the jets at its southern pole. This makes it the ideal place to…