Mergers, Mayhem, and the Milky Way
Reported by Universe Today
Galaxies grow through mergers and collisions, and astronomers want to know more about the mergers in the Milky Way's past. But mergers can stir up the stars in the resulting galaxy, making it difficult to determine exactly when an ancient merger occurred. ...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 15:26 +0000
I Am Artemis: Tim Goddard
Reported by NASA
Listen to this audio excerpt from Tim Goddard, NASA open water lead: At the end of their mission around the Moon, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts were recovered from their Orion spacecraft by a team of U.S. Navy divers and NASA personnel. This included Tim ...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:57 +0000
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 1: The Apology Begins
Reported by Universe Today
Years of grievance against dust. It ruins lungs, suits, rovers, and Mars missions. The first installment of an apology, sort of, to the most annoying substance in the cosmos....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:16 +0000
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
Reported by NASA
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up from a supermagnetized neutron star born in the stell...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 12:55 +0000
Psyche mission images of Mars flyby are here!
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Psyche mission images of the Mars flyby are now here! See them here and read more about what Psyche learned as it passed the red planet.
The post Psyche mission images of Mars flyby are here! first appeared on EarthSky....
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00 +0000
Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island
Reported by NASA
The blaze spread across the southern side of the second-largest island in California’s Channel Islands National Park....
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00 +0000