A star is dead? Keep your eyes on the skies, stargazers: NASA has predicted that the much-anticipated “once-in-a-life-time” star explosion — or nova — will be visible to the naked eye sometime this summer, per a recent press release. “It’s incredibly exciting to have this front-row seat,” said Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist … Read more
Maybe they’re not gravitating to it after all. In a new interview, Jessica Chastain claimed there have been “a lot of couples who have told me they’ve named their children, their daughters Murph,” after her NASA scientist character, Murphy “Murph” Cooper, in the 2014 science fiction film “Interstellar.” “Well, maybe this means it’ll be a boon … Read more
E.T.? More like U-Haul. A mysterious signal that for a decade was widely believed to be a sign of alien life most likely came from a noisy truck, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have revealed. Initially believed to be from a meteor fireball that shot out just north of Papua New Guinea in the southern … Read more