The Universe Is Exploding—And the Vera Rubin Observatory Will Catch It in the Act
The Southern Hemisphere’s night sky is about to get a full diagnostic scan. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, backed by the NSF and DOE, is gearing up for a ten-year surveillance operation. Every night, it will sweep the cosmos, capturing everything from rogue asteroids...
The Battle for the Darkest Skies: How a Green Energy Giant Might Blind the World’s Best Telescopes
A futuristic clean energy project is gearing up to invade Chile’s Atacama Desert, and astronomers are panicking. The culprit? A massive green hydrogen plant, set to sprawl across 3,000 hectares, threatening not just the pristine silence of the driest place on Earth...
Nine Months Stranded in Space: NASA’s Astronauts Finally Escape, Thanks to SpaceX
NASA’s latest space saga has finally reached its climax—a daring escape from the International Space Station after nine long months in orbital limbo. Trapped not by malfunction or cosmic catastrophe, but by a maddening series of delays, Sunita Williams and Barry...
Saturn Has 274 Moons—And Scientists Are Starting to Get Suspicious
Saturn has been hoarding moons like a paranoid sci-fi villain stockpiling alien artifacts. Astronomers just uncovered 128 more, bringing the grand total to an absurd 274. That’s nearly triple Jupiter’s count, which is frankly embarrassing for a so-called gas giant....
A Mysterious Radio Signal Hits Earth Every Two Hours—And It’s Coming from a Dead Star
For the last decade, Earth has been on the receiving end of a bizarre cosmic ping—like a telegram from the abyss—every 125 minutes. Scientists finally tracked down the source, and while it’s not little green men (yet), it’s something they’ve never seen before. Meet...Recent News
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