Carnival of Space #660-661
Welcome to the 660-661st Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…
OSIRIS-REx Descended Down to Just 75 Meters Above the Surface of Bennu in a Recent Test
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready for its big moment. OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is…
Watch Asteroid 1998 OR2 Zip Past Earth This Week
A fascinating asteroid nammed 1998 OR2 pays our neck of the inner solar system a visit early Wednesday morning, and…
A Star is Orbiting the Milky Way’s Black Hole and Moving Exactly How Einstein Predicted it Should
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
This is the Final Picture NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the…
Astronomers Find a Six-Planet System Which Orbit in Lockstep With Each Other
Astronomers have found a star system with six exoplanets that orbit with an almost perfect 3:2 resonance.
Astronomers Detected a Black Hole Merger With Very Different Mass Objects
In another first, the latest gravitational wave event to be detected came from the merger of two black holes of…
Super-Supernova Released Ten Times More Energy than a Regular Supernova
It's easy to run out of superlatives and adjectives when your puny human language is trying to describe humongously-energetic events…
BepiColombo captured images of Earth during its recent flyby
Farewell! Even though the BepiColombo mission launched for Mercury in 2018, it's still hanging around the Earth - at least,…
Crew Dragon Will Be Launching on May 27th
NASA and SpaceX are targeting May 27, 2020 for an historic mission: the launch of the first astronauts on the…