George Mason University’s Landolt Space Mission is a collaboration with NASA on a scientific initiative that will eventually send an artificial star into orbit around the Earth. Why do we need a fake ...

MADISON COUNTY, Ill. — The “Landolt NASA Space Mission” will launch a tiny satellite mimicking a star into space named after an astronomer from the Metro East. According to George Mason University, ...

Four lasers were directed into the skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal facility in Chile. Each laser creates an artificial star, which astronomers use to measure and then ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADISON COUNTY, Ill. — The “Landolt NASA ...