New Space Missions

Science

Although we bid farewell to several historic space missions recently (Keppler’s nine-year planet hunting mission, Dawn’s 11-year mission to the asteroid belt, and Opportunity’s nearly 15-year exploration of Mars), we’ve had a few ground-breaking new ones to take over the skies. TESS, a planet-hunting satellite, launched in April, 2018, and is NASA’s next mission in…

Why Would a Star Flicker?

Science

More than 1,000 light-years away from Earth is a star that has been baffling astronomers since it was first observed in data collected by the Kepler mission. It’s largely known as Tabby’s Star, after assistant professor Tabetha Boyajian from the Louisiana State University department of Physics and Astronomy. For no obvious reason, Tabby’s Star has…