It’s not long since billionaires were competing to get to the “edge of space”. Now, the first set of private…
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The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen – Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50…
When astronomers dream of their ideal telescopes, it’s not that different to what people want from their TVs and computer…
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had…
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico…
The BOLT II hypersonic flight experiment will launch tonight from NASA’s Wallops Test Flight Facility in Virginia. Hypersonic vehicles, which can fly…
Want to go to space? It could cost you. This month, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will make the first fully-private,…
In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The…
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving…
There’s only one constant when it comes to space travel. Well, besides rockets blowing up sometimes. And that is delays.…