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In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...
The Aerodyne Co. and Jacobs Technology Co. are joint venture partners on NASA's COSMOS contract awarded to ASCEND.
The new book 'Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos' offers an overview of how 3D printing can help anyone learn about space, spaceflight and astronomy.
Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...
A team of astronomers has detected a mysterious “heartbeat” signal originating from deep space, capturing the attention of ...
The companion book to the latest season of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s blockbuster, Cosmos, is available now. Go beyond the series to undertake an exhilarating journey through space and time.
Come with me." With those words in 1980 the astronomer Carl Sagan launched "Cosmos," an epic 13-part TV series that brought science to the public like never before, and opened up all of space and ...
This month's issue of Astronomy takes you on a guided tour through the cosmic distance scale from Earth’s neighbors in the solar system, past the Milky Way and its galactic cousins in the Local ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is now about 1 million miles from Earth, and almost ready to scan the cosmos.
When astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark PBS series "Cosmos" first aired in the fall of 1980, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was flying past Saturn and its moons, sending back astonishing images of worlds ...