NASA’s TESS has discovered a distant star system that scientist Brian Powell says exist against all odds. Powell is a data scientist at the NASA High...
Astronomers have discovered 8,292 stellar currents in our galaxy. Instead of star clusters, streams form linear patterns. Each stream is called Theia, the
The Hubble space telescope has been in orbit for decades, and while still extremely useful, it’s aging, and NASA is preparing to replace it. One of...
By Dirk Lorenzen2021 begins as a year of Mars. Although our red planetary neighbor isn't as prominent as it was last autumn, it is still noticeable...
SpaceX has successfully launched a record 143 satellites into orbit in its first SmallSat Rideshare Program mission.
The Earth’s oceans are notoriously unexplored, and stand as a monument to the difficult of exploring underwater. But they aren’t the only unexplored seas in the...
SpaceX is set to launch the very first of its dedicated rideshare missions – an offering it introduced in 2019 that allows small satellite operators to book...
Perth, Western Australia, Australia--Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia (UWA)...
“How big is a particle?” Well, that's a subtle (and, unsurprisingly, complex) question.
Machine learning algorithms serve us the news we read, the ads we see, and in some cases even drive our cars. But there’s an insidious layer...