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Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (431+ words) Published May 10, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley's Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye every 72 to 80 years. That makes it a short-period comet, whose highly elliptical orbit takes it beyond Neptune before…...
Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (212+ words) Published May 10, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT You may think you're the protagonist of your own story. According to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, however, you're more like a puppet " whose strings are being pulled into a million parallel universes at any given time....
NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (416+ words) Published May 9, 2026 8: 15 AM EDT NASA's Curiosity rover got stuck in a rock, and consequently found itself in a hard place. Last month, the Mars robot was drilling into a rock sample using its robotic arm, as is routine in its…...
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (193+ words) Published May 8, 2026 9: 49 AM EDT There's a fresh twist in the mystery of the "little red dots. Astronomers say they've found a new specimen, which they're calling an "X-ray dot, that suggests these crimson specks are a type of never-before-seen " and…...
Space X Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (247+ words) Published May 6, 2026 4: 34 PM EDT Space X has been smacked by a one-two punch of lawsuits filed by hundreds of Texas residents accusing the company of damaging their homes from its frequent rocket tests. The suits, both led by the same…...
Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (495+ words) Published May 6, 2026 12: 58 PM EDT Astronomers have long been fascinated by the unusual behavior of objects orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt, a scattered disc of minor planets beyond the orbit of Neptune. Many of these frozen objects appear to…...
Jeff Bezos' Moon Lander Just Completed a Key Test
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (468+ words) Published May 4, 2026 8: 01 PM EDT NASA is still hoping to land the first Artemis astronauts on the surface of the Moon by the end of 2028, an extremely ambitious plan that will require an extraordinary number of moving parts to perfectly fall…...
Scientists Say There's Something Huge Buried Inside Our Galaxy
1+ week, 2+ day ago (201+ words) Published May 3, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT An ancient galaxy appears to be buried inside the Milky Way, new research suggests." That's right: a galaxy inside a galaxy. The lost realm, which the astronomers have dubbed "Loki" after the Norse trickster god, was…...
NASA's Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump
1+ week, 3+ day ago (511+ words) Published May 2, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT During his first term in late 2017, president Donald Trump announced that the United States would make its historic return to the surface of the Moon. Back in 2019, his administration's goal was for astronauts to touch down…...
An Out of Control Space X Rocket Is Going to Smash Into Moon, Astronomer Says
1+ week, 4+ day ago (489+ words) Published May 1, 2026 10: 45 AM EDT One of Elon Musk's spacecraft will finally reach the lunar surface " but probably not in the way he envisioned. According to a new report, the discarded upper stage of a Space X Falcon rocket will smash…...