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Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
New Scientist· 3 days agoNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently about 8 billion kilometres from the sun, and by the time you finish reading this story ...
Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per...
SPACE.com· 5 days agoThe star is designated CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36) and was first detected by citizen science...
The day Willie Mays made two boys from Hattiesburg feel like a million bucks
The Meridian Star· 12 hours agoWillie Mays, the best baseball player on the planet, was 31 and in his prime. This was before the Astrodome and the Astros. The brand new Houston expansion team, then called ...
Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues on how the solar system formed : Short Wave
NPR· 4 days agoBut planetary scientist Wladymir Lyra says that even though it was downgraded to a dwarf planet,...
Explained: What Is a Supernova?
ExtremeTech· 5 days agoEvery so often, a mysterious so-called "guest star" appears in the sky, often far outstripping its cousins in brightness. Astronomers and stargazers have known about such events since at least ...
Welcome to Copa América 2024, the tournament that’s a bigger deal than it seems
Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoThe Copa América, a mini-World Cup for the Western Hemisphere featuring stars like Lionel Messi,...
LA's shimmering Bonaventure hotel, and the future that never came
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoIn 1978, a stainless steel gull-winged sports car was brought to Los Angeles, a prototype in search...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 5 days agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Why animal ethics matters for tackling climate change
The Conversation· 2 days agoThe world’s oldest animal welfare charity, Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), is under fire from non-human rights activists Animal Rising. A food-labelling ...
The day Willie Mays made two boys from Hattiesburg feel like a million bucks
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 2 days agoWillie Mays, the best baseball player on the planet, was 31 and in his prime. This was before the Astrodome and the Astros. The brand new Houston expansion team, then called ...
