They Just Shut Down Gaia, the Spacecraft That Mapped Two Billion Stars
After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...
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ESA Says Goodbye to Gaia After a Decade That Changed Our View of the Galaxy
After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...
Scientists Just Snapped the Clearest Image of the Universe’s First Light
New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...
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10 things we want from the next Mass Effect game
BioWare's follow-up to the original Mass Effect trilogy is still a ways off, but we already have an extensive list of things ...
Mar 22: What fossil plants say about the evolution of life, and more…
On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...
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New high-definition pictures of the baby universe
Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe ...
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10 Ways to Get (Way) Out There in Nevada
With the U.S. government officially investigating unexplained sightings, the world has gone crazy for UFOs ... like Orion’s Belt and gasp at the Milky Way, which on clear nights looks like ...
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Here's the launch plan for NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions: 'Liftoff is just the beginning'
"We've gone through that process and we've gotten ... galaxies and over 100 million stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. By creating a comprehensive catalog of these objects in more than ...
Welcome to Algeria: Tea in the capital city and bread baked in the Saharan desert
We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...