Discovered last March, special comet C/2022 E3 (nicknamed the green comet) will be visible for the first time in 50,000 years. That means the last time the green comet was observable from…
by Maimouna Kante According the Scientific American, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin claimed there could potentially be another planet beyond Neptune—about two years ago. They sometimes call this planet “Planet…
by Brittany Greve A Chinese space station that has been on track to fall to Earth has finally crashed. Hailey Lara (‘21) said, “It’s kind of scary to think that it could…
by Katelynn Fleming You may be familiar with the aurora borealis, the mesmerizing northern lights, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek god of the north wind,…
by Katelynn Fleming Ever seen a picture like the one above when describing a black hole? It may not be hard to believe that this one is an artist’s rendering of a…
by Abigail Mullen On Feb. 4, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy for the first time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy is one of the…
by Anna Gombert India is planning to land on the moon. While this mission will not be India’s first trip to the moon, it will be their first attempt to land on…
by Abigail Mullen On March 27, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly left Earth for the International Space Station (ISS), where he would complete a yearlong mission. According to Space, one of the…
by Katelynn Fleming Shortly after arriving in office, the Trump administration has been hinting at desires to put Americans back on the moon. At the first meeting of the newly revived National…
By Anna Gombert and Colleen Dabrowski Despite the stifling 82 degree heat and the lack of air conditioning in the Simon Forum, more than 2,000 people packed into the gym on Tuesday,…