Since Perseverance is Searching for Life, What Will it Be Looking for?

4 years ago

You have to be careful what you say to people. When NASA or someone else says that the Perseverance rover…

A map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes Across the Universe

4 years ago

The Low Frequency Array has mapped a portion of the sky at the lowest radio frequencies ever, revealing more than…

Watch Perseverance Land on Mars. Mind…Blown

4 years ago

NASA's Perseverance rover is practically bristling with cameras. And those cameras were busy during the rover's breathtaking descent to the…

How Long Will Space Junk Take to Burn Up? Here’s a Handy Chart

4 years ago

If the Roman Empire had been able to launch a satellite in a relatively high Low Earth Orbit – say…

There’s Evidence That Mars Once Had an Atmosphere With Less Oxygen. A Possible Biosignature For Life?

4 years ago

Remote sensing is only useful if scientists have an idea of what they are looking at.  That knowledge is especially…

The Mars Helicopter is Online and Getting Ready to Fly

4 years ago

Earth is the only planet in the solar system with aircraft capable of sustained flight. Suppose the ground-breaking Ingenuity helicopter,…

Protogalaxy Cluster Found When the Cosmic Fog Was Starting to Clear, When the Universe Was Just 750 Million Years Old

4 years ago

Origin stories are a focus of many astronomical studies.  Planetary formation, solar system formation, and even galaxy formation have long…

Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby

4 years ago

Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets…

Once He Steps Down From Amazon, Jeff Bezos Will be Able to Focus his Energy on Blue Origin

4 years ago

Jeff Bezos' recent decision to step down as CEO of Amazon could be good news for Blue Origin, one of…

Did a Comet Wipe out the Dinosaurs?

4 years ago

About 66 million years ago a massive chunk of rock slammed into Earth in what is the modern-day Yucatan Peninsula.…