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Lyrid meteor shower to peak tonight. Here's what to know
CBS News· 7 days agoLook up, astronomy fans: The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak overnight Sunday into Monday,...
Venus Unveiled: Carbon and Oxygen Caught Escaping Into Space
SciTechDaily· 22 hours agoA fleeting visit of the European Space Agency (ESA)/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission to Venus has revealed surprising insights into how gases are stripped away from ...
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
Wisconsin State Journal· 4 days agoLaunched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 has been exploring interstellar space since 2012. Its twin, Voyager 2, is 12.6 billion miles away and still working fine.
Here's Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon
Universe Today· 3 days agoScientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers...
Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAlthough any piece of equipment will naturally degrade over time, Chandra...Cat’s Eye Nebula, which...
Stellar detectives find suspect for incredibly powerful 'superflares'
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSome stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. A team of...
Io’s volcanoes have been erupting for billions of years
EarthSky· 4 days agoEarthSky’s Deborah Byrd created this 1-minute video summary for you, on Io‘s volcanoes. Jupiter’s...
Look to deadly Venus to find life in the universe, new paper argues
Phys.org· 6 days ago"Venus gives us that." Published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, the paper compiles much of...
On this day in history, April 25, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope placed in orbit by Space Shuttle...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Hubble Space Telescope, proclaimed by NASA to be the most significant advance in astronomy since...
Will We Know if TRAPPIST-1e has Life?
Universe Today· 6 days agoThe search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet...