Tracking Twilight: ‘Purple Sunset Effect’ Seen Worldwide
Has twilight looked at little… mauve to you as of late? The effect is subtle, but noticeable on a clear…
Musk Presents the Orbital Starship Prototype. Flights will Begin in Six Months
Coinciding with SpaceX's 17th anniversary, Elon Musk provided the latest updates on the design of the Starship and Super Heavy…
New Technique for Estimating the Mass of a Black Hole
A Russian-led team of astronomers has developed a method for estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole by looking…
Mice That Spend a Month in Space Were Able to Reproduce Once They Got Back to Earth
A team of Japanese researchers have used sperm from mice that spent time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to…
Astronomers Have Found a Place With Three Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Around Each Other
Astronomers have spotted three supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of three colliding galaxies a billion light years away…
WFIRST Gets its Coronagraph, to Block the Light of Stars and Reveal Their Planets
The coronagraph instrument, which will help NASA's WFIRST mission to search for exoplanets, just passed a major milestone!
Shape-shifting Robots Like These Could Be Just What We Need to Explore Titan
When it comes to space exploration, it's robots that do most of the work. That trend will continue as we…
Astronauts Explore Caves on Earth, Learning the Skills They’ll Need for the Moon and Mars
We're accustomed to astronauts pulling off their missions without a hitch. They head up to the International Space Station for…
This Summer’s Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA’s NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks
Last July, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened. Not the good kind; the football-field-sized-asteroid near-miss kind. And that near miss is the…
Weekly Space Hangout: September 25, 2019 – Seth Lockman & Aaron Lockman: The Astronomy Brothers
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Carolyn Collins Petersen (TheSpaceWriter.com / @spacewriter) Moiya…