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'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 4 blasts onto Blu-ray and DVD on April 16

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 2:00pm
A preview of the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 4 Blu-ray and DVD, which was released today (April 16).
Categories: Astronomy

Monster black hole seen feeding on nearby matter just 1 billion years after Big Bang (photos)

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:59pm
The robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project have observed a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole 3 billion times as massive as the sun at the very edge of the universe
Categories: Astronomy

Will the constellations ever change?

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 11:00am
BepiColombo spotted an outpour of carbon and oxygen atoms in Venus' fragile magnetic environment
Categories: Astronomy

Switzerland signs Artemis Accords to join NASA in moon exploration

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:00am
Switzerland became the 37th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration with NASA on April 15, following the inclusion of Greece and Uruguay in February.
Categories: Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope full-size model to be displayed by Space Foundation

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 9:00am
To see the premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location farther away than anyone has traveled. Or, soon, you can visit Colorado.
Categories: Astronomy

Dark energy could be getting weaker, suggesting the universe will end in a 'Big Crunch'

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 8:00am
The first year of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data seems to show that dark energy is weakening over time, possibly the biggest cosmological discovery for 25 years.
Categories: Astronomy

Record breaker! Milky Way's most monstrous stellar-mass black hole is sleeping giant lurking close to Earth

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 6:00am
Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar-born black hole ever seen in the Milky Way, and it lies relatively close to Earth.
Categories: Astronomy