Astronomy 2022: Top Skywatching Events for the Coming Year
Meteor showers, eclipses and a fine opposition of Mars top out astronomy 2022.
New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres
A new analysis of the fabled Bussard Ramjet shows that the spacecraft would need an impossibly big magnetic field to…
Here’s DART’s First Picture From Space. We Are Already Looking Forward to its Last Image
It might not look like much, but here is the first monumental image from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).…
The Real Science Behind the Movie “Don’t Look Up”
The new movie “Don’t Look Up” -- now available on Netflix -- is not your usual sci-fi disaster film. Instead,…
JWST Is On Its Way!
It’s really happening. After all the years of delays, reschedulings, budget shortfalls, and even more delays, the James Webb Space…
Primordial Black Holes Could Explain Dark Matter and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes at the Same Time
The James Webb telescope might discover primordial black holes in the near future.
Best Image Ever Taken of Stars Buzzing Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the…
This Video of Comet Leonard (with Venus and Mercury) will Blow Your Mind
Since early this year, skywatchers on Earth have been tracking Comet Leonard, a kilometer-wide dirty snowball made of ice, rock…
The Bottom of Valles Marineris Seems to Have Water Mixed in With the Regolith
According to data obtained by ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter, it looks like there's plenty of water ice at the bottom…
Life Could Make Habitable Pockets in Venus’ Atmosphere
The tantalizing possibility that life exists in the clouds of Venus is once again causing a stir amongst planetary scientists…