Here’s Chang’e-5, Seen From Lunar Orbit
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander…
Pictures are coming in from Solar Orbiter
One of the best things about astronomy is that it’s a never-ending supply of awesome visuals. Almost every new mission…
The Kilonova-Chasing Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer is About to be Watching the Whole Sky
Lately there has been a flood of interest in gravitational waves. After the first official detection at LIGO / Virgo…
A Real River Valley on Mars, Filled With Virtual Water by @Kevinmgill
Visual artist Kevin M. Gill's latest creation is an image of what Hypanis valles (an ancient river channel) on Mars…
A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
Chuck Yeager, the First Man to Break the Sound Barrier has Died. He was 97
On Dec. 7th, 2020, legendary aviator Chuck Yeager died in hospital at the age of 97. He leaves behind a…
Astronomers Have Found Planet 9… in Another Solar System
Even with all we've learned about our own Solar System, especially in the last couple of decades, researchers still face…
Weekly Space Hangout: December 16, 2020 – John Powell Tells Us About PongSats and Airship to Orbit
https://youtu.be/PnCFiQAyvTM Please welcome our guest tonight, John Powell, President of JP Aerospace, a nonprofit that launches student designed Pongsats (i.e.,…
China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
A Chinese probe has delivered the first samples to be collected from the Moon in more than 40 years, and…
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors Should be Able to see the Primordial Waves From the Big Bang
Underneath all the gravitational waves we see are faint primordial waves. If we can detect them, it could change our…