Astronomy Space Science

Help scientists find spacetime warps in these Euclid Space Telescope images

A new Space Warps project lets the public hunt for gravitational lenses in data from the Euclid Space Telescope.

Half of all active satellites are now from SpaceX. Here’s why that may be a problem

Of the roughly 7,300 active satellites in Earth orbit, about 3,600 are part of SpaceX’s growing fleet of Starlink internet ...

Astronomers reveal spectacular birthplace of cosmic buckyballs

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...

ZME Science

A Man-Made Object Is About To Be a Light-Day Away from Earth

Light travels at a whopping 299,792 kilometers per second. It zips from Earth to the Moon in a heartbeat, clears the orbit of ...

6don MSN

Astronomers find an exo-Jupiter, and it seems to have clouds

A team of astronomers led by Elisabeth Matthews at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a discovery that highlights the limits of most current models of exoplanet atmospheres: ...

The Daily Cardinal

UW astronomy outreach center closes due to budget cuts

The UW Space Place Outreach Center, which hosted 10,000 visitors a year, is closing as a result of departmental budget cuts.

Lawrence Journal-World

KU’s Physics and Astronomy department hosting ‘Pluto Day’ event, celebrating science of space and the dwarf planet’s KU connection

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...