Dava Newman, SM ’89, PhD ’92, director of the Media Lab since 2021, sees space exploration and research as something to be pursued for the sake of helping Earth, not for the sake of escaping it.

You might guess it’s because a lot of the stars in the universe are very far away from Earth. Of course, it is true that the farther away a star is, the less bright it looks — a star 10 times ...

Astronomers discovered two Earth-sized white dwarf stars 160 light-years away, orbiting each other and headed for a series of explosions.; The stars, remnants of stars like our sun, will ...

When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

However, they eventually began to produce metals in their core, making them a bridge to the stars that would form billions of years later. “Population III ” stars are predicted to be distinct in other ...

Comet C/2023 A3 last visited Earth about 80,000 years ago. ... A bright comet is heading towards Earth and could outshine the stars in the sky, ... according to the Universe. Space.

Stars, like the Sun, are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1 percent over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will ...

The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of stars surrounding the main galactic disk in space, and are estimated to have formed about 12 to 13 billion ...

One of astronomy’s lovelier aphorisms, popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan, is that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. That’s hard to grasp ...

One of the fastest-spinning stars in the Universe Date: October 30, 2024 Source: ... By comparison, the distance to Earth's nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.3 light years.

The oldest-known star, officially called HD 140283 but nicknamed Methuselah, lies 190.1 light-years away. The Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) UK Schmidt telescope photographed the star in blue ...