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As Comet ATLAS crumbles away, Comet SWAN arrives to take its place for skywatchers

As I write these words, Comet ATLAS, which a month ago looked like it might evolve into the first really bright naked-eye comet in a decade, is now falling apart. It has fragmented into several pieces, quickly dispersing and not leaving behind enough material ...

Popular Mechanics

Quick Question: How Many Galaxies Are There?

Popular Mechanics

For hundreds of thousands of years, humanity has peered up at the night sky with one question top of mind: what else is out there? There's the moon (8), of course, and then the sun. And as our view of the night sky has come into sharper focus, we've ...

Gravitational waves reveal unprecedented collision of heavy and light black holes

Science Magazine

Science Magazine

Researchers with the world's gravitational wave detectors said today they had picked up vibrations from a cosmic collision that harmonized with the opening notes of an Elvis Presley hit. The source was the most exotic merger of two black holes detected yet--a ...

Astronauts Return to Earth From International Space Station

EcoWatch

EcoWatch

Three astronauts landed back on Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. A Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft undocked from the ISS at about 10 p.m. UTC Thursday, with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan ...

China wants a piece of the moon. Here's how it plans to handle lunar samples.

A glimpse into China's readiness to handle samples from the moon reveals steps to be taken for storage, processing and preparation of the specimens. China's Chang'e 5 robotic moon mission is scheduled to launch later this year. That venture represents the ...

Five men die of coronavirus after attending Indiana HS basketball game

New York Post

New York Post

The night of March 6 was supposed to be one of the most exciting for high school basketball fans in Indiana. About 2,800 fans packed the gym at Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis for the sectional semi-finals. Little did anyone know that five ...

WIRED

Space Photos of the Week: 50 Years After Apollo 13

WIRED

Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Like Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, the goal of the mission was to land on the Moon. However astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise ...

A spacecraft performed a life-extending operation on a satellite

For the first time, a spacecraft has docked with a satellite and moved it to extend its lifespan. This could help reduce the growing problem of space debris. In February this year, the Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-1) spacecraft docked ...

Europe's planet-hunter telescope CHEOPS observes its first exoplanet

Europe's newest planet-hunting telescope, the CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite or CHEOPS, has observed its first exoplanet and is ready to begin its scientific observations. Launched in December 2019, the satellite is in orbit around Earth and captured its ...

Oregon Coast Beach Connection

Satellite Swarms Create Otherworldly Light Shows Above Oregon, Washington, Coastlines

Oregon Coast Beach Connection

(Portland, Oregon) – As Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull put it in the song "Apogee": "Beware a host of unearthly daffodils / Drifting golden, turned up loud." Such a futuristic, even surreal sight is now a commonplace thing in the skies above the Earth, where the ...