In 2017, a strangely shaped object whizzed past the Sun and Earth on a trajectory from beyond our Solar System, triggering wild speculation. Most scientists believe the cigar-shaped visitor, which measured less than a kilometer in length, was a comet … Read More
NASA’s latest image of the Milky Way is two decades in the making. The dramatic view of the heart of the galaxy combines 370 observations taken over a period of 20 years and features billions of stars. “What we see in the … Read More
PDS 70 is a 370-light-year-distance star that is almost 6 million years old and has a mass roughly three-quarters that of the Sun. Two years ago astronomers spotted what they thought might be a moon-forming disk around PDS 70b, its … Read More
Today (July 20), Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the spaceflight company Blue Origin, launched into suborbital space with three other people on the first crewed mission of the company’s New Shepard vehicle — a turning point for the man … Read More
After a more than month-long shutdown due to a computer glitch, the iconic but elderly Hubble Space Telescope appears to have been resurrected. We have learned that following a switch from the operating payload control computer to a backup device … Read More
This month, Elon Musk will technically become the richest person on Earth when his space rival and actual richest person on Earth, Jeff Bezos, is blasted into space upon Blue Origin’s first-ever human flight. If a petition has its way, … Read More