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You Can Help Name NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover

Jenny Flack

Who hasn’t always wanted to name an intergalactic robot?  I have.  You have.  Now you can!  NASA is running a ...

Elon Musk Has Ambitious Expectations for SpaceX Starship Prototype

Jenny Flack

SpaceX has a new prototype of their Mars-colonizing Starship craft and Elon Musk is right on brand with his ambitions and ...

Astronaut Christina Koch Has Set a New Record for Time Spent in Space

Jenny Flack

NASA astronaut Christina Koch made history this year by taking part in the first all-female space walk.  And, she’s set ...

How to Watch the 2019 Mercury Transit

Jenny Flack

On November 11, 2019, Mercury will transit the face of the sun from Earth’s vantage point.  We’ll be able to ...

Get Spooky This Halloween With NASA’s GALAXY OF HORRORS

Jenny Flack

Nothing says Halloween like the true terrors of outer space.  And, NASA knows it.  They’ve put together a fun, spooky ...

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Scientists Are on the Hunt for a Galaxy Killer

Jenny Flack

Galaxies are delicate and dynamic things.  Their interaction with their surroundings and where they reside in the universe have big effects ...

Watch Monday’s Perseid Meteor Shower at Home or Online

Jenny Flack

The annual Perseid meteor shower is one of the highlights of a stargazer’s year.  It is, once again, upon us ...

NASA Could Feasibly Go Planet Hunting With a Starshade in Space

Jenny Flack

NASA has a lot of big ideas. That’s their business. Looking for exoplanets has become a focus in recent years. ...

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AD ASTRA Trailer: The Fate of the World Is in Brad Pitt’s Hands

Jenny Flack

The highly anticipated trailer for the new science fiction thriller, Ad Astra, is here! Brad Pitt is astronaut Roy McBride, ...

An Asteroid With Its Own Moon Will Fly By Earth This Weekend

Jenny Flack

A familiar couple that lives in our cosmic neighborhood will be buzzing by us this weekend.  The Asteroid 1999 KW4 ...

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Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Is a New Kind of Lunar Lander

Jenny Flack

On May 9th, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin’s lunar lander, Blue Moon, for all the world to see. It’s ...

The Big Dipper Is Housing an Interloper

Jenny Flack

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things does not belong. There’s an interloper lurking ...

Mars Dust Storms May Have Blown Its Water Away

Jenny Flack

The Mars dust storm that killed the Opportunity Rover has given scientists at NASA something to think about. The planet-wide, ...

NASA’s Cassini Reveals Saturn’s Secrets From the Grave

Jenny Flack

Cassini’s Grand Finale is the gift that keeps on giving.  NASA deliberately crashed the spacecraft into Saturn’s atmosphere as it ...

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NASA’s Fermi Satellite Records Speed of Super Fast ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar

Jenny Flack

Astronomers have known about a pulsar (superdense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes) nicknamed J2002 ...