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Witness The Power Of A Fully Operational ESPRESSO Instrument. Four Telescopes Acting As One
The ESO's ESPRESSO instrument is getting all four of the telescopes at the Very Large Telescope to play nicely together,…
Mars 2020 Rover is Going to be Taking a Chunk of Mars Back to… Mars?
When the Mars 2020 arrives on the surface of the Red Planet, it will be carrying a piece of a…
New Horizons Just Took a Record Breaking Image. No Camera Has Ever Taken a Picture From This Far From Earth
This past December, the New Horizons probe took a series of pictures from the Kuiper Belt, thus breaking the record…
Messier 66 – the NGC 3627 Intermediate Spiral Galaxy
Located in the direction of the Leo constellation, about 36 million light-years from Earth, is the intermediate spiral galaxy known…
If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?
A new study considers how messages from extra-terrestrial civilizations could pose an existential threat, and what humanity should do about…
Researchers Just Scanned 14 Worlds From the Kepler Mission for “Technosignatures”, Evidence of Advanced Civilizations
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for…
The Solar System Probably has Thousands of Captured Interstellar Asteroids
According to a new study by a team of Harvard researchers, there could be thousands of interstellar asteroids like ‘Oumuamua…
James Webb Makes The Journey From Houston To Los Angeles; Last Stop Before It Heads To The Launch Facility In 2019
The James Webb Space Telescope is now in LA. After final assembly there, it will undergo more testing. Then it…
There is a car, in space. Launched by a rocket with reused parts that landed back on Earth by a billionaire who wants to colonize Mars.
Update: It looks like the center booster didn't make the landing. It couldn't light all its engines back up and…
Here’s a Prediction About the Orbit Musk’s Tesla is Going to Take Through the Solar System
The inaugural launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is happening today! Here's a prediction of what will happen to…