South Korea is now a Space-Faring Nation With the Orbital Launch of Their Homegrown Nuri Rocket
South Korea just became the 11th member of the space club, and the seventh nation to launch a commercial payload!
Do Ancient Coins Record the Supernova of 1054?
SN 1054 was one of the most spectacular astronomical events of all time. The supernova explosion eventually formed what is…
64 Radio Telescopes Come Together to act as a Single Giant Observatory
The MeerKAT array just combined the power of its 64 radio telescopes to create a single telescope, which is already…
Plenty of Examples That Giant Galaxies Like the Milky Way Formed Through Mergers
The Universe's giant galaxies pose a thorny problem for astronomers. The galaxies have grown large somehow, and the only things…
Chinese Astronomers Detect an Interesting (But NOT Alien) Signal With the FAST Radio Observatory
Unfortunately, China's 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) did NOT detect possible alien signals, only radio interference from Earth.
This Tiny Dot is one of the Biggest, Most Active Galaxy Superclusters Ever Seen. It Was Already a Monster Shortly After the Big Bang
A newly discovered supercluster of galaxies is so distant that astronomers say its light has been traveling for over twelve…
Another few Weeks of Observations Could Tell us if the Wow! Signal Repeats
The famous Wow Signal might be a repeating radio burst, and astronomers might soon prove it.
Charon’s Red Cap at its North Pole? We Might Have an Answer
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, started off as a beautiful, smooth red grape until someone came along, mostly peeled it, tried…
A Totally new View of the Large Magellanic Cloud (and more!) From Retired Telescopes
ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new images…
Could We Use Mars as a Base for Asteroid Mining?
The earliest mention of asteroid mining might be in a story from 1898 titled "Edison's Conquest of Mars," by Garrett…