Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen…
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The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars
It’s a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you…
A Bold Plan to Beam Solar Energy Down From Space
Whether you’re covering deserts, ugly parking lots, canals, or even sunny lakes with solar panels, clouds…
At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
After two years of data-taking and number-crunching, a team of astronomers has…
Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
Of course, the challenge will be applying scientific standardization to something that…
Did the Seeds of Life Ride to Earth Inside an Asteroid?
Nearly a hundred different types of amino acids have been observed in…
The Spaceport at the Edge of the World
What about human safety? Gordon McEwan, whose home is near the proposed…
It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects
Instead, with his “fluidic telescope” concept, one need only launch a frame…
Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like…
Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
Scientists just announced that they’ve detected what might be some of the…