Shenzhou-14 Astronauts Begin Their Mission of 6 Months in Space
The Shenzhou-14 mission, carrying three Chinese astronauts, docked successfully earlier this week with the Tiangong-3 space station. During their six-month…
Jupiter is up to 9% Rock and Metal, Which Means it Ate a lot of Planets in its Youth
Jupiter is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The amounts of each closely conform to the theoretical quantities in…
Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days
Why does a Mars rover have a rock in one of its wheels? Maybe it's because a rover doesn’t have…
A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs
Astronomers have a brown dwarf problem. They should be seeing a lot more of these objects, which are cooler than…
Starship Will Spit out Starlinks Like a Candy Dispenser
A new SpaceX animation shows how the Starship will dispense the next-generation of Starlink satellites - Pez style!
Which Missions and Observatories can Detect Technosignatures?
The search for technosignatures has always taken a back seat in the broad search for extraterrestrial life forms. Biosignatures, such…
Venus Does Have Craters. Here’s one
As most everyone knows, Venus is called Earth's twin, though its scorching temperatures and extreme surface pressure are more like…
ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia Observatory is a mission dedicated to astrometry, a branch of astronomy where the velocity…
What’s Out There? NASA Sets Up Independent Study on UFOs
NASA has dipped into the debate over UFOs for decades, but today the space agency said it's commissioning an independent…
JWST was Recently Hit by a Surprisingly Large Micrometeoroid
Scientists and engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope revealed that since its deployment in space, the telescope has been…