Volcanoes Were Erupting on Venus in the 1990s
Start talking about Venus and immediately my mind goes to those images from the Venera space probes that visited Venus…
Enjoy Five New Images from the Euclid Mission
We're fortunate to live in these times. Multiple space telescopes feed us a rich stream of astounding images that never…
Mars InSight Has One Last Job: Getting Swallowed by Dust on the Red Planet
Normally you don't want dust to get into your spacecraft. That was certainly true for the InSight mission to Mars,…
Merging Black Holes Could Give Astronomers a Way to Detect Hawking Radiation
Nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Over immensely long periods of time, they evaporate, as will other large objects in…
Starlinks Can Produce Surprisingly Bright Flares to Pilots
How can sunlight reflecting off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interfere with ground-based operations? This is what a recently submitted study hopes…
A Weather Satellite Watched a Space Rock Burn Up Above Spain and Portugal
It's been a momentous May for skywatchers around the world. First the big auroral event of May 10-11, next a…
Galaxies in the Early Universe Preferred their Food Cold
One of the main objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study the early Universe by using…
A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes
Sometimes, astronomers get lucky and catch an event they can watch to see how the properties of some of the…
Could Martian atmospheric samples teach us more about the Red Planet than surface samples?
NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help…
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that…