Weekly Space Hangout: May 20, 2020 — Dr. Sarah McAnulty from Skype A Scientist
https://youtu.be/VJOToKYSSPE This week we are joined by Dr. Sarah McAnulty. Sarah is a squid biologist and the executive director of…
Astronomers Are Sure These Are Two Newborn Planets Orbiting a Distant Star
Planet formation is a notoriously difficult thing to observe. Nascent planets are ensconced inside dusty wombs that resist our best…
Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns
About half of all the star systems in the galaxy are made of pairs or triplets of stars. Our solar…
NASA is Giving the SLS a “Green Run” to Prepare it for Launch in Late 2021
Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have resumed tests of the Core Stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) in…
40 Years Ago, Mount St. Helens Blew its Top Off
One day, my Grade Nine science class got way more interesting. Suddenly, volcanoes weren't just something in textbooks. Though I…
Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses Discovered to Help Study the Distant Universe
General relativity tells us that everything, even light, is affected by the mass of an object. When a beam of…
Venus Meets Mercury This Weekend in a Fine Dusk Conjunction
What’s that? You say you’ve never seen elusive Mercury for yourself? You won’t have an excuse after this weekend, when…
NASA Proposes the Artemis Accords. The New Rules for Lunar Exploration
NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords.
Space Force Launches its Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane
The US Space Force, in conjunction with the USAF and the ULA, just launched the X-37B spaceplane for the sixth…
This Laser Powered Rover Could Stay in the Shadows on the Moon and Continue to Explore
The craters on the Moon's poles are in permanent shadow. But they're also intriguing locations, due to deposits of water…