VICE: You may not realize it in your day-to-day life, but we are all enveloped by a giant “superbubble” that was blown into space by the explosive deaths of…
Science: Astronomers are always looking to the next big thing. This week, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers packed into a standing-room-only conference room to hear…
Forbes: Can NASA and SpaceX help save the Hubble Space Telescope? Launched in 1990, the world’s premier visible light space observatory has been sending back to Earth jaw-dropping images…
Forbes: The universe’s very first stars —- one of astronomy’s observational holy grails —- arguably remain as elusive today as they were a quarter century ago. But astronomers are closing in on these first points of light. While it’s true…
Forbes: More than a year after its latest outburst, teams of global astronomers have completed the most extensive mapping sequence of an active stellar nova ever achieved. Actually, a…