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Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician known for her essential work on the nation’s first mission to space and the first landing on the moon, has died at age 101. Johnson was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, also the title of a nonfiction book. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss […]
For the first time ever astronomers have located a fast radio burst (FRB) that regularly repeats itself. Don’t know what an FRB is? Well, we’ll try our best to explain it to you. Science Alert defines them as mysterious deep space signals that are unpredictable. CNN adds that they’re millisecond-long radio wave bursts from space. They can […]
The first super moon of the decade is coming this weekend. The “Super Snow Moon” will rise in the east on the night of Saturday, February 8 and come to its highest point in the sky around midnight while reaching “peak fullness” at 2:34 a.m. ET on Sunday, February 9, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The name “Super Snow […]
Trump has shared the new logo for the United States Space Force, which bears a close resemblance to the Star Trek logo. And yes, people took notice. On Friday, he tweeted, “After consultation with our Great Military Leaders, designers, and others, I am pleased to present the new logo for the United States Space Force, […]
If you’re stuck in a dead end job but you have a “bright personality” and also know how to suck up to the rich, this could be your big moment. We say that because Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire entrepreneur pictured above, has unveiled a campaign in which he’ll select a “female partner” to take on […]
Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier made history on his third day as a NASA intern. The teen was assigned to examine the variation in the brightness of stars captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Goddard Space Flight Center. He ended up discovering a planet during the assignment. This happened last summer, but NASA only announced the achievement this week after his findings […]
The United States Space Force is officially the newest branch of the country’s military, ABC News reports. On Friday, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Not only did this approve the country’s 2020 military budget, but it also made the Space Force a branch of the military. “With my signature today, […]
A biotech company is set to send cannabis to the International Space Station in an effort to learn more about how the plant thrives in outer space. Well, they aren’t sending the cannabis you might be thinking of. They won’t be sending the plant Cannabis sativa, rather, they’re sending cell cultures of hemp, which is […]
Scientists revealed that the planet narrowly evaded a catastrophe after a massive asteroid barely missed Earth. Asteroid 2019 OK was speeding past Earth last week, traveling at nearly 15 miles per second, according to the Washington Post. The most surprising fact about this reveal is that scientist were unaware of the asteroid’s presence until hours […]
Grab your tinfoil hats and running shoes, because an ambush of Area 51 is going down next month. Supposedly. The mysterious military base has been the subject of countless conspiracy theories, most of which are of the extraterrestrial variety. For decades, many have believed that the Nevada district served as a holding site for aliens and UFOs—a theory that […]
