Using new observational data from the space-based Solar Mass Ejection Imager and three different modeling techniques, astronomers have found that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion, has a radius of about 764 solar radii, a mass between 16.5 and 19 solar masses, and is 548 light-years away.
Lt. Col. Robert Friend was in charge of Project Blue Book, the military’s famous UFO study.
Called RBC EXT8, the cluster challenges some theories of how galaxies form and evolve
About 1000 kilometres above Earth’s surface, two old spacecraft have narrowly avoided a collision.
It is not often that a comedian gives an astrophysicist goose bumps when discussing the laws of physics.
New images taken by BepiColombo come at a time when interest in the second planet from the sun is at an all time high.
Coin designed by Fogo Island artist Adam Young
Environmental tests exposed spacecraft to vibrations and noise it will face during ascent
The drawings depict birds, monkeys, killer whales and more. Theories about their ultimate purpose abound.
Death by spaghettification and a stellar peacock.
