Adler Planetarium’s Director of Public Observing Michelle Nichols joins Lisa Dent to discuss the streaking objects that many Illinois residents saw in the sky on Tuesday night.
Following the explosive failure of the Starship megarocket’s January 16 test flight, residents of the British territory were left with debris-strewn roads and beaches.
NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of space junk in low Earth orbit, moving around our planet at speeds up to 18,000 mph. Most space debris is from human-made objects like pieces of ...
The pop-up exhibition took place the afternoon of December 12, 2024, in the Special Collections Learning Lab at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library and featured twenty-four artworks.