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Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Star Trek: Discovery” season 4, episode 13 Well, here we are. Again. It’s fourth time around for the finale of “Star Trek: Discovery” on Paramount Plus. After a somewhat disjointed 13-episode season, that felt like it was following an almost identical template to last season and made up of two very … Read more
What we thought were three confirmed exoplanets have just been knocked off their perch – and a fourth one is under serious doubt. According to a new analysis using revised characteristics, the objects Kepler-854b, Kepler-840b, and Kepler-699b seem to be too big to be exoplanets after all. That means they must be stars. The fourth … Read more
A critical stage of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror alignment has been completed, keeping the state-of-the-art observatory on track to commence science observations in a few months. On March 11, the telescope completed its final round of fine phasing to correct alignment errors. No issues have been identified, and the Webb team is … Read more
Warning: Spoilers ahead for “Star Trek: Discovery” season 4, episode 12 This is it. This is the penultimate episode of the fourth season of “Star Trek: Discovery” on Paramount Plus. After this one…there’s only one more and we pick up right where we left off last week. The USS Discovery approaches the hyperfield structure where … Read more
A new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope during its alignment process shows galaxies and stars in the background. (Image credit: NASA/STScI) The next great observatory is sharpening its vision and well on the way to cracking mysteries of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope launched in December, arrived at its station … Read more
In a new study, researchers predict what an alien “Earth” could really look like, and how it could evolve (if one exists). In the search for evidence of life elsewhere in the universe, scientists have searched for planets similar to our own. Our closest stellar neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system, holds an exoplanet that scientists … Read more
A runaway dead star zooming through space at breakneck speeds has left behind a huge trail of matter and antimatter particles. The star is a pulsar called PSR J2030+4415 or J2030 for short; it’s around 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter, and it’s speeding through space at a breakneck velocity of around 450 kilometers per … Read more
Look up tonight (March 15) to see the Hyades star cluster light up the Taurus constellation in the night sky. The Hyades star cluster is the closest star cluster to Earth, located only 150 light-years away. Viewers can spot the star cluster by looking for the tall, Y-shaped constellation Taurus, the bull, which is situated … Read more
Astronomers have spied three whole systems of exoplanets being born around one binary star. SVS 13 is a binary star system 980 light-years away, and the complex structures of dust around it are shedding light on how planetary systems are born in these fascinating environments. Since a large proportion of stars is bound up in … Read more
The first teaser trailer for the next live-action “Star Trek” spinoff, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” has beamed in from Paramount Plus and it looks to be a cowboy adventure to the stars. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, the first captain of Trek’s iconic USS Enterprise starship (before … Read more