A Glitch Caused Curiosity to Freeze in Place. But It’s Better Now
Article updated at 3:40 pm CST, 1/24/20. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover experienced a technical glitch last week, causing it to…
This is Probably Sandstone Layers on Mars. Absolutely Beautiful
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been in orbit around Mars for almost 14 years. It carries a variety of…
Finally! We get to See a View From Inside Boeing’s Starliner During its First Flight
Boeing has released a highlight reel made from footage that was taken from the inside of the Starliner capsule during…
Rosetta Saw the Building Blocks of Life on Comet 67P
Why is there so little nitrogen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P)? That's a question scientists asked themselves when they looked at…
The Evidence is Leaning More and More Towards an Asteroid Ending the Dinosaurs
Which camp are you in: volcanoes? Or asteroids? When it comes to the extinction of the dinosaurs, science has whittled…
Carnival of Space #647
Carnival of Space. Image by Jason Major. This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban…
Betelgeuse is Continuing to Dim! It’s Down to 1.506 Magnitude
Betelgeuse keeps getting dimmer and everyone is wondering what exactly that means. The star will go supernova at the end…
Weekly Space Hangout: January 22, 2020 – Dr. Kenneth Carpenter of HST and WFIRST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC9y5sqHRl8 Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Allen Versfeld (https://www.urban-astronomer.com/ / @uastronomer) Carolyn Collins Petersen (TheSpaceWriter.com / @spacewriter) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) This week we welcome…
A Twilight Tryst: Venus Meets Neptune in the Dusk Sky
Never seen Neptune? It’s time you should, and this weekend offers a fine time to try, as the faintest planet…
Space Force Uniforms are Perfectly Camouflaged for a Forest Moon
The United States Space Force has given us a look at their new uniforms, and critics are savaging them on…