Saturn Got Its Tilt From Its Moons
One of the fundamental tenets of physics is that two objects, now matter how different their size, exert a force…
OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May
The OSIRIS-REx team decided to delay the spacecraft’s departure from asteroid Bennu for two months. The departure window opens in…
Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of Biosphere 2 Inspired SAM²
Guided by the lessons of Biosphere 2 experiments, a team of experts is launching the Space Analog for the Moon…
Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn’t Have any Clouds
Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn't easy since Jupiter's latitudinal cloud bands and its…
All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far
Few events in the astronomy community were received with more fanfare than the first detection of gravitational waves, which took…
Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise
A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online… and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery…
What Did The Solar System Look Like Before All The Planets Migrated?
Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put…
Solar Orbiter Caught Venus, Earth and Mars in One of its Photos
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is heading towards the center of the Solar System, with the goal of capturing the closest…
Galileo’s Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it
In 1995, NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter and found it to be far drier…
Axiom Space Reveals the Crew for Its First Space Odyssey in 2022 (Sorry, Tom Cruise)
Axiom Space’s first privately funded trip to the International Space Station will be as notable for who’s not on the crew…