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Lyrid meteor shower to peak tonight. Here's what to know
CBS News· 6 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· 2 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 ...
Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAlthough any piece of equipment will naturally degrade over time, Chandra...Cat’s Eye Nebula, which...
Here's Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon
Universe Today· 2 days agoScientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers...
Scientists Turn to Venus in the Search for Alien Life
SciTechDaily· 3 days ago“We often assume that Earth is the model of habitability, but if you consider this planet in...
Stellar detectives find suspect for incredibly powerful 'superflares'
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSome stars erupt with 'superflares' 10,000 times as powerful as solar flares from the sun. A team of...
Holmdel park dedicated to local scientist who discovered proof of the Big Bang theory
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoWilson was hired by Bell Labs in 1963 after he did a radio astronomy thesis at the California...
Saturn's moon Titan imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope
Boing Boing· 3 days agoThe superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — a little bit Earthlike ...
Io’s volcanoes have been erupting for billions of years
EarthSky· 3 days agoEarthSky’s Deborah Byrd created this 1-minute video summary for you, on Io‘s volcanoes. Jupiter’s...
Pluto's heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world's history
LiveScience· 4 days agoResearchers simulate how an ancient impact left a pear-shaped dent on Pluto. When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression ...