Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know

The solar system is now at the edge of this cloud, but the massive stockpile of cosmic stardust has left signatures on ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

NASA spacecraft to swing past Mars as it chases rare metal asteroid

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars this week, on voyage to rare metal asteroid

Psyche will travel quite close to Mars, coming within just 2,800 miles of the red planet's surface at its nearest point, according to NASA. Slingshotting past at about 12,333 miles per hour, the ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft buzzing Mars on its way to a rare metal asteroid

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter in 2029. Named Psyche like the ...
Science Daily

Earth is flying through ancient supernova debris and scientists found the evidence in Antarctic ice

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

Astronomers directly detect how turbulence between stars distorts light

Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of ...

One graph attempts to connect every object in the universe

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph ...
The Daily News Journal

Rutherford County Library System Board moves books on 'gender confusion' to adult sections

Library board ends 'Freedom to read' policies from American Library Association The audience members in purple T-shirts held signs with various messages, such as 'Book Bans are un-American" and ...