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What is Project Athena? All about the leaked plan that could turn NASA into a private space empire

One major goal in Project Athena is to launch a new Mars exploration program named Olympus. This plan was designed to align with SpaceX’s proposal to send an uncrewed Starship mission to Mars next ...
Space.com

The Milky Way may not collide with neighboring galaxy Andromeda after all: 'From near-certainty to a coin flip'

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." A titanic cosmic collision between the Milky Way and its closest large galactic neighbor, Andromeda, may not be as ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

New braille book from Cincinnati astronomer lets you see constellations without your eyes

Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series "Star Gazers," but they may not know that Regas is also the author of ...
Space.com on MSN

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD'

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...
Time

Planetary Census: Hundreds of Billions in the Milky Way?

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...