A dinosaur is floating around the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a flight engineer orbiting the Earth since May, stitched together the olive green toy, the first stuffed animal created in space, in her spare time. She made the toy giant lizard from the Velcro-like fabric that linesContinue Reading
Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano discovered PH1 while participating in the “Planet Hunter” program led by Yale University. The program allows amateur astronomers team up with professional scientists to search for new discoveries with data collected from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. “Planet Hunters is a symbiotic project, pairing the discoveryContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our MilkyContinue Reading