How Long is a Day on Venus? We Finally Know the Exact Answer
Using the radio-echo timing technique, a team of researchers have precisely measured the length of a day on Venus
Dune Fields in Gale Crater Tell the Story of Mars’ Shifting Climate Over Eons
Rocks can tell us a lot about a planet. On Earth, the study of geology has been around for hundreds…
New All-Sky Map of the Milky Way’s Galactic Halo
The outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy are a different place. Stars are much harder to come by, with…
Protests From Dynetics and Blue Origin put NASA’s Lunar Lander Award to SpaceX on Hold
Due to protests filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics, NASA has called for a stop-work order on the SpaceX Human…
Astronomers are Watching a gas Giant Grow, Right in Front of Their Eyes
In the vastness of space, astronomers are likely to find instances of almost every astronomical phenomena if they look hard…
Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions Could Finally Settle the Different Measurements Over the Expansion Rate of the Universe
If you've been following developments in astronomy over the last few years, you may have heard about the so-called "crisis…
Chinese Company Claims to be Working on a Starship-Like Rocket
According to a new animation, it appears that China is hoping to build a Starship of its own, one that…
Instead of Betelgeuse, Keep Your eye on AG Carinae, Another Star That’s About to go Supernova
Astrophotography is one of the most gratifying parts of space exploration, and there’s nothing better at it than Hubble. Recently,…
Breakthrough Listen Searched for Signals From Intelligent Civilizations Near the Center of the Milky Way
If there are aliens out there, they probably aren't in the central region of our galaxy.
Are we Seeing a Star That Just got Spaghettified?
Sometimes astronomers come up with awesome names for certain phenomena and then feel like they can’t use them in formal…