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Wall-E and Eva are going to Mars, too
Riding along with the InSight Mars mission, the 2 briefcase-sized CubeSats are designed to demonstrate nearly real-time communications between worlds.
May 4, 2018
Does Stephen Hawking’s final theory tame the multiverse?
"I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite the theory can’t be tested."
May 2, 2018
Gaia sees LMC stars as galactic fingerprint
It resembles a fingerprint, doesn't it? But it's really a galaxy, rotating. This image is from ESA's Gaia space observatory. It shows the rotation of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
May 2, 2018
Watch SpaceX Dragon depart from ISS May 2
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, May 2. NASA TV will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure starting at 10 a.m. EDT (14:00 UTC).
May 1, 2018
New Shepard has successful 8th test flight
Blue Origin's suborbital rocket New Shepard made its 8th test flight on April 29, going up from the company's launch site in West Texas. Watch mission highlights here.
April 30, 2018
Take a virtual tour of 6 exoplanets
The virtual exoplanet tour has a cool 360-degree visual display. Since launching in late 2017, it's had over a million YouTube views. Check it out here.
April 29, 2018
Unseen siblings for Milky Way’s supermassive black hole?
Our Milky Way galaxy is known to have a supermassive black hole at its heart. Could more supermassive black holes be lurking unseen at our galaxy's outskirts?
April 27, 2018
Gaia’s 2nd data release: 1.7 billion stars!
Why did ESA's director of science say Gaia's observations are "redefining the foundations" of astronomy? Also, links to virtual reality resources made possible by Gaia, available for you to explore.
April 26, 2018
Watch thousands of asteroids orbiting our sun
Both NASA and ESA space missions have just released new videos plotting the orbits of tens of thousands of asteroids (and comets) orbiting our sun.
April 26, 2018
How TESS will hunt for alien worlds
Launched last week, TESS will scan 200,000 close and bright stars, seeking new planets and possibly livable worlds. Here's a roundtable discussion with 2 scientists on the TESS mission.
April 22, 2018
