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"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society." ...
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles is reaching for the stars with the May launch of its Center for Space Medicine Research.
That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...
Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...
With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.
The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...
V572 Velorum is currently shining at magnitude +4.8, about 55,000 times brighter than usual. It was discovered on June 25 ...
"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in ...
Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...
The first deep space images from a mountaintop observatory in Chile have scientists excited for what they could soon learn ...