I Heart Pluto Festival 2021, Day 3 | https://iheartpluto.orgInspiration of the Cosmos - Open Discussion with Retired NASA Astronauts Nicole Stott and Ron Ga...
DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. The DART mission is planned for launch in 2021. It'll visit a double asteroid - Didymos and its tiny moon - and crash into the moon in an attempt to change its orbit.
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The Dipper is more than just a bright and familiar star pattern. It's a compass, a clock, a calendar and a ruler all rolled into one!
Watch 2 astronauts perform landmark 200th ISS spacewalk on Friday, May 12. Live coverage begins at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC). Links to viewing here.
We think of globular clusters as being scattered far from the galaxy's central regions, in the great spherical halo of our Milky Way. But astronomers are finding them much closer to the galactic center.
A bizarre, futuristic contests invited space agencies and astronomers from around the world to find the best way to colonize the Milky Way.
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The IllustrusTNG Project has created a large and detailed simulation of the Universe. It's helping us answer some important questions about the formation and evolution of...everything.
An analysis of the cosmic microwave background has provided clues about the gas inside vast cosmic voids in space, between giant superclusters of galaxies.
The Sun will end its life as a dense, smoldering object called a white dwarf. A new study reports the discovery of one of the first small and intact planetary fragments found in the gas-filled debris disk of a white dwarf, possibly shedding light on the ultimate fate of the solar system.
The new theory of carbonaceous asteroid formation is called the ‘mudball model’
Launched in 2018, TESS is NASA's new space-based exoplanet hunter. Now it's found its 1st Earth-sized world orbiting a nearby star. The discovery bodes well, scientists say, for finding more similar worlds in the near future.
As pink liquid oozed around her shoes, astronomer Johanna Teske started to feel sick. She had been looking for new planets with the Planet Finder
Experts anticipate computers powerful enough to crack the codes currently used will surface in the next 10 to 20 years
For many, for decades, Carl Sagan was the best-known astronomer on Earth. He popularized astronomy in a popular TV series. Today is his birthday.
How Did This Black Hole Get So Big So Fast? | RealClearScience
'Golden' Expedition: 50th Commander Takes Charge of Space Station
This pulsar - a rapidly spinning remnant of a massive star - is moving so quickly that it will eventually leave the gravitational pull of our galaxy far behind.
The Whirlpool galaxy through different wavelengths.
