Weekly Space Hangout: December 4, 2019 – Dr. Becky Smethurst’s “Space: 10 Things You Should Know”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpnlbNiChfw Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein) Sondy Springmann (@sondy) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) Tonight…
Landslides Work Differently on Mars, and Now We Might Know Why
Some landslides, both here on Earth and on Mars, behave in a puzzling way: They flow a lot further than…
Using Balloons to Launch Rockets
LEO Aerospace is developing a "Rockoon" system that will provide commercial launch services for microsatellites, as well as a platforms…
Carnival of Space #640
It's that time again! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog. Click…
Giant Meteor Impacts Might Have Triggered Early Earth’s Plate Tectonics
A new study by an Australian-US team has found that a large impact that happened ca. 3.2 billion years ago…
Messier 94 – the Cat’s Eye Galaxy
Located in the constellation Canes Venatici, roughly 15 million light years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as the…
Cancer Seems to Have Trouble Spreading in Microgravity
A team of Australian researchers have found evidence that microgravity can disrupt the spread of cancer cells, which could lead…
There’s Now an Operational Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
The Chang'e-4 satellite (Queqiao) recently deployed the NCLE radio observatory, a joint Netherlands-Chinese experiment that will probe the early Universe.
Interstellar Comet Borisov is About to Make its Closest Approach to Earth
A team of astronomers from Yale have taken the clearest picture of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov to date, showcasing its…
Astronomers Are About to Detect the Light from the Very First Stars in the Universe
A team of scientists working with the Murchison Widefield Array (WMA) radio telescope are trying to find the signal from…