What a Misplaced Meteorite Told Us About Mars
11 million years ago, Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the…
Uranus is Getting Colder and Now We Know Why
Uranus is an oddball among the Solar System's planets. While most planets' axis of rotation is perpendicular to their orbital…
How Scientists Repurposed a Camera on ESA’s Mars Express Mission
A camera aboard the Mars Express orbiter finds a new lease on life. Sometimes, limitations can lead to innovation. A…
SpIRIT CubeSat Demonstrates a Operational Gamma and X-Ray Detector
CubeSats are becoming more and more capable, and it seems like every month, another CubeSat is launched doing something new…
Sun-Like Stars Around Black Holes: What Gives?
Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting…
Starship’s Booster (and Donald Trump) Make a Splash With Sixth Flight Test
SpaceX's Starship launch system went through its sixth flight test today, and although the Super Heavy booster missed out on…
The Strange Pulsar at the Center of the Crab Nebula
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we all have a vivid image of the Crab Nebula emblazoned in our mind's…
The Biggest Black Holes May Start From The Tiniest Seeds
The existence of gigantic black holes in the very early universe challenges our assumptions of how black holes form and…
China’s Proposed Cargo Shuttle, the Haolong, Has Entered Development
The 2024 China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition was held in Zhuhai last week - from November 12th to 17th,…
Up to a Third of Stars Ate Some of their Planets
In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme accuracy. With that capability,…