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Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11

Reported by NASA

Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event,&...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:34 +0000

The Best Place to Look for Alien Megastructures Might Be Moon Dust

Reported by Universe Today

Our search for technosignatures - clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth - takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, which attempts to estimate how many technological civilizations there are in the Milky Way. However, ther...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:14 +0000

What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 1: The Infernal Reservoir

Reported by Universe Today

If the Sun's fusion shut off right now, you would not notice for a very long time. The first stop is understanding the Sun itself: a vast pile of gravitating matter where fusion is so absurdly inefficient that, pound for pound, a compost heap beats it....
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:25 +0000

LISA Could Double as an Asteroid Scale

Reported by Universe Today

One of the hardest things to calculate for an asteroid is its mass - but it is such a critical feature. It determines how much of an impact it would have if it hits something, or how many resources are potentially available on it. But to accurately measure...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:07 +0000

NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions

Reported by NASA

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remn...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:45 +0000

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from New Jersey Students

Reported by NASA

Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:06 +0000