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Space.com

According to Dr. Espenak, there are four supermoons in 2024, in August, September, October and November. But this week’s supermoon is the one where the full moon and perigee coincide closest together.

Space.com

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Space.com

SpaceX launched its 100th rocket of the year early Tuesday morning (Oct. 15), and followed it up with another liftoff just hours later. SpaceX’s centenary mission of the year lifted off from Florida, with a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company’s …

Scientific American

Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem? By Marc Kamionkowski & Adam G. Riess. Illustration of a cosmic sky, filled in by puzzle pieces. Chris Gash. November 2024 Issue. Cosmology.

CBS News

BOSTON – The massive comet that’s starting to become visible in the night sky across the United States won’t stick around for too long. And once it’s gone, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas won’t be seen again from Earth with the naked eye for another 80,000 …

The New York Times

Astronomers have identified thousands of planets orbiting distant stars using sophisticated observatories. But there’s something they have yet to spot with any certainty: moons around those worlds. Now a recent discovery around a Saturn-size planet 635 …

CBS News

BOSTON – Comet Atlas has been flirting with Massachusetts. It began very low in the eastern horizon a few weeks ago and now it has reappeared in the west in the evenings. However, until now, there really hasn’t been an ideal night for viewing here in …

Harvard Gazette

This year’s class of Packard Fellows features 20 early-career scientists and engineers, each receiving $875,000 over five years to pursue their research goals. Villar is an astrophysicist who uses data-driven methods and machine …

The New Yorker

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues persuaded NASA to send a mission there. By …

ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. LAKE FOREST, Calif. — To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in California that is out of this world.