APOD: 2026 April 29 – The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades
APOD: 2026 April 29 – The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades Discover the cosmos! Each day a different…
On This Day: Satellite built in Stevenage launches to space
The forest-monitoring satellite, named Biomass, was developed, built, and tested by Airbus in Stevenage, alongside teams in Friedrichshafen,…
Canada Proposes POET Mission to Hunt Earth-Sized Planets
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Scientists just found the Milky Way’s edge and it’s closer than expected
Defining where the Milky Way ends has always been challenging because its disk does not stop abruptly —…
Satellite Captures Rare View of Hubble Space Telescope on its 36th Birthday
It’s famous for picturing far-off galaxies, redefining how the public sees the Universe, but as the Hubble Space…
Nighttime Imaging Grows Landsat’s Science Value
By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center For more than 50 years, Landsat has imaged Earth’s land and near-shore…
Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s core — and astronomers don’t know why
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MAPA! Trump’s NASA Administrator wants to bring back Pluto as a planet in our solar system
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New AI astrophysics algorithms are 95% better at showing how the universe changes over time
A newly developed technique could teach AI algorithms to see the universe with unprecedented clarity — potentially exposing…
NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he’s fighting for Pluto: ‘I am very much in the camp of ‘make Pluto a planet again’
NASA chief Jared Isaacman wants to restore Pluto to its former glory. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union…