Astronomers Finally Find the Neutron Star Leftover from Supernova 1987A
Astronomers at Cardiff University have done something nobody else has been able to do. A team, led by Dr. Phil…
How Do We Settle on Ceres?
How might humanity go about establishing a colony on Ceres, the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt?
Scientists Search for Ancient Fossils in Australia, Practicing the Techniques They’ll Use on Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover is heading to Mars soon to look for fossils. The ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars rover is heading to…
Conjunction Alert: Jupiter Meets Venus at Dusk
Get ready: The queries are inbound. “Did you see those two bright things in the sky last night?” Says a…
Weekly Space Hangout: November 20, 2019 – Kathryn Bywaters, Research Scientist at the SETI Insitute
https://youtu.be/oHeua_irDJ4 Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Michael Rodruck…
ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano will be Controlling a Rover From Space
The ESA has begun conducting experiments as part of their Analog project, which will allow human operators to control robotic…
Water Vapor Was Just Found on Europa, More Evidence There’s Liquid Water Beneath All that Ice
What's been long-suspected has now been confirmed: Jupiter's moon Europa has water. As we've learned more about the outer Solar…
The Impact Site of China’s Longjiang-2 Spacecraft has Been Found on the Moon
Thanks to an amateur tracker, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team found the lunar impact site of China's Longjiang-2 satellite.
Carnival of Space #638
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog. Click here to read Carnival…
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons
A team of astronomers estimates that the LSST (which will be operational in 2020) will allow us to learn more…