Chunks of Alpha Centauri—Our Closest Stellar Neighbor—Might Have Already Reached Us
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
Astronomy on MSN20h
The Sky This Week from February 14 to 21: Venus reaches greatest brilliancy
The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...
Federal funding freeze disrupts rural organizations supporting foster youth, job growth
Federally funded programs provided both women with a social safety net and employment in one of the nation’s poorest states, ...
Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
ZME Science on MSN16h
Scientists Build Space Weather ‘Traffic Light’ to Protect Earth from Dangerous Solar Storms
Yuri Shprits, a space scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, is on a mission to save our planet.
Space.com on MSN10h
Astronomers have brought you a space Valentine: The Tarantula of the cosmos
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...