Even while government and the private sector were working together to build America’s greatest economic successes, the narrative increasingly turned against any public involvement in the economy. We celebrate the achievements of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos while forgetting the public ore they are mining. “We no longer think governments should have...
Artist’s illustration of the object ʻOumuamuaCredit: M Kornmesser/ESO
In October 2017, astronomers made a groundbreaking discovery: the first known interstellar object passing through our solar system. Dubbed ʻOumuamua, meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first”...
The H-R diagram was created around 1910 by Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell, plotting stars’ absolute magnitudes or luminosities against their colors or temperatures. It shows that stellar properties are not random but...
In the vast expanse of the universe, stars are born, live out their lives, and eventually die. While the life cycles of stars are generally well understood, astronomers have been puzzled by the phenomenon...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds...
A database updated in 2022 reported around 4,852 active satellites orbiting the earth. These satellites serve many different purposes in space, from GPS and...
Eclipses are more accessible than you might think. New technologies, projects, and resources aim to make this year’s eclipse more inclusive, helping as many...