A 1,100-foot asteroid will fly past Earth in 2029 within hitting distance of some orbiting spacecraft. The asteroid, known as 9942 Apophis, will come within 19,000 miles of earth on April 13th, 2029. ...Read More
Guys guys guys guys guys GUYYYYYYS B L A C K H O L E Space Space Space! Time! TIME AND SPACE! SPACE AND TIME! Y’all. The Event Horizons Telescope(EHT) used images from 6 telescopes on 5 c...Read More
The sun blazing down on your face in the middle of summer. A coconut drink in hand. You look to your right and see a family throwing a frisbee, and a dog playing along trying to catch it. You feel a c...Read More
The Milky Way is big. It’s just simply big. ‘How big?’ has been a topic of debate among astronomers. The reason for the heavy debate up until now is due to the amount of things we ha...Read More
In the summer of 2018, the Opportunity rover had its last communications with earth when a large sandstorm engulfed it on Mars. 15 years after its initial deployment, NASA has said they will stop tryi...Read More
Rosalind Franklin made rounds mere years after her death when in 1968 a book authored by the now majorly discredited nobel prize-winning racist anti-semitic, James Watson, known as “The Double H...Read More
Today isn’t looking like the best day for ye olde Hubble telescope as it was recently released that it has lost the main camera. Key issue: The United States government funds NASA and NASA contr...Read More
Recently, a NASA spacecraft over 4 billion miles away took pictures of an asteroid. That’s over a billion miles from Pluto. That spacecraft is New Horizons and it took a picture of Ultima Thule....Read More
NASA landed their Mars lander yesterday. THE Mars. The same one that has had multiple missions fail. Around 3pm EST, the lander, protected by a heat shield and paired with a very powerful parachute, i...Read More