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America at 250: The Revolutionary Spark A Smithsonian magazine special report Baker’s work was instrumental in the success of the NAACP and other organizations, but she did it in a way that didn’t put herself in the spotlight. That was by design Hsiao-Ron Cheng Ella Baker built in the background. Though her work as a grassroots…

Update (June 22, 2026): The research discussed below is now published online in Nature. Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this image of the comet on August 27, 2025. International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA et. al The visitors we know of from…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org WASHINGTON – One of the Pentagon’s largest cloud services providers is partnering with a rising defense juggernaut to provide high-capacity computing and AI for targeting and…

  Introduction: In this article, I’ll delve into the historical context surrounding the Space Treaty and its profound impacts on the landscape of international relations. The Space Treaty, formally known as the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies,…

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an “extremely stripped supernova.” In a paper published in Nature, Steve Schulze of Northwestern University in the United States and colleagues describe the supernova 2021yfj and a thick shell of gas surrounding it. Their findings support our…

A revolutionary rapid-response system has allowed astronomers to observe a gamma-ray burst at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths within minutes of its discovery, marking the earliest observations ever achieved at these frequencies. The milestone, reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, demonstrates how a newly automated observing system at the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea can transform…