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Space.com

NASA’s Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance are exploring uncharted territory — which means their mission teams have to come up with lots of names to fill the new maps they’re putting together. Monikers have been supplied for thousands of sizable …

Space.com

Gaunt’s team is calling the star BELLS 1, an acronym for “broad emission-lined luminous sources, the kind of wide range of emissions radiated by Wolf-Rayet stars. BELLS 1 probably began as …

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From New York City, the half moon will rise early in the first hours after midnight on Saturday (June 10) and will unfortunately set around midday, making this third quarter moon best for morning observations.

Space.com

The satellite constellation circling the moon would enable scientists to peer into the universe’s early days. Comments (0). China’s planned moon-orbiting telescope, the Discovering Sky at the Longest Wavelength Project. An array of moon-orbiting …

Livescience.com

When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible. Comments (0). On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory by Thomas Hertog.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This map shows all the quadrant themes for NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently in the Roraima quadrant seen at the bottom. The red oval indicates the landing ellipse where the rover was targeted to touch down in 2012.

Popular Science

The Boeing Starliner, a space capsule that was scheduled to launch in July for its first crewed test flight, will remain on the ground for at least this summer—if not indefinitely. At a joint press conference on Thursday, NASA and Boeing officials …

SkyandTelescope.com

A new study making the rounds predicts that supergiant Betelgeuse will explode as a supernova sooner rather than later, but others are urging caution. The roiling surface of Betelgeuse This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse.

Futurity: Research News

Physicists have discovered an exotic material made of bosons. Take a lattice—a flat section of a grid of uniform cells, like a window screen or a honeycomb—and lay another, similar lattice above …

Universe Today

In the ensuing decade, the first crewed missions to Mars are expected to occur, culminating with the creation of the first human outposts on another planet. Commercial ventures also want to establish habitats in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), enabling everything …