April 20, 2017April 20, 2017 by Cody

Asteroid Day is June 30, 2017

Researchers Conduct the Largest Study of Runaway Stars in the Milky Way February 4, 2026
Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive observational study to date of runaway massive stars, which includes an analysis of the rotation and […]
Is the Universe Older Than We Think? Part 1: The Cosmological Clock February 3, 2026
When I say that the universe is 13.77 billion years old, it sounds rather authoritative.
Red Giant Stars Can't Destroy All Gas Giants. Some Are Hardy Survivors February 3, 2026
Astronomers haven't found many gas giants orbiting white dwarfs. But is that because they're so difficult to spot? Or is it because their survival rate is so low? New research probes the issue.
Reading the Moon’s Diary, One Speck of Dust at a Time February 3, 2026
Magnetism on the Moon has always been a bit confusing. Remote sensing probes have noted there is some magnetic signature, but far from the strong cocoon that surrounds Earth itself. Previous attempts to detect it in returned regolith samples blended together all of the rocks in those samples, leading to confusion about the source - […]
Elon Musk lays out a new vision of AI satellites as SpaceX acquires xAI February 3, 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he’s making space-based artificial intelligence the “immediate focus” of a newly expanded company that not only builds rockets and satellites, but also controls xAI’s generative-AI software and the X social-media platform. That’s the upshot of Musk's announcement that SpaceX has acquired xAI.