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You still have a little time to see the Lyrid meteor showers. Here are your best bets
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThose looking for Lyrids may have to put in some work because visibility may be low due to light...
TESS Finds its First Rogue Planet
Universe Today· 6 hours agoWell over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey...
NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
Omaha World-Herald· 8 hours 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.
When and where you can see April's Pink Moon
CBS News· 3 days agoAstronomy fans can check out the Pink Moon this month as April's full moon rises. April's full moon will reach peak illumination at 7:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, but it will appear ...
Starmus: The world’s greatest science party
Astronomy Magazine· 12 hours agoStarmus, which combines the words stars and music, is the creation of Director Garik Israelian, an astronomer in the Canary Islands who is an expert on...
The Lyrids meteor shower is peaking. Here's how to enjoy it with a bright moon
NPR· 3 days agoThe nearly full moon over the weekend will make it more difficult to see the meteor shower, but...
China to send fresh crew to Tiangong space station
AFP via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoChina will send a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday, Beijing's Manned Space Agency announced, the latest mission in a programme that...
Astronomers offer new model for formation of recently discovered 'free-floating' planets
Phys.org· 3 days agoThe recent discovery of a potential new class of distant and mysterious "free-floating" planets has intrigued astronomers since stunning new images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
SPACE.com· 15 hours agoThe dotted white streak cutting across this photo of a faraway galaxy might seem like a nuisance for...
Former Bronc becomes nationally awarded scholar
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle· 11 hours agoSheridan High School alumni Rebecca Rapf has been doing just that since graduating in 2008. Rapf is currently a chemistry professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Rapf also does ...