Carnival of Space #627
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Chandrayaan 2 Mission Loses Contact With Vikram Lander During Descent
The ISRO dispatched their Vikram lunar lander towards the lunar surface today, but lost contact with it just before it…
Mercury has Magnetic Poles that Drift Like Earth’s
Earth's magnetic poles drift over time. This is something that every airplane pilot or navigator knows. They have to account…
This Star Has Reached the End of its Life
About 10,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, is a planetary nebula called NGC 5307. A planetary nebula is…
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
It Hasn’t Rained on Mars for a Long Time, but These Sand Dunes Look Like Raindrops, and They’re Filled with Chemicals Made in Water
A recent image from the MRO shows rows of olivine-rich dunes in the Copernicus Crater on Mars, a feature that…
Thanks to Trump, We’ve Got a Better Idea of the Capabilities of US Surveillance Satellites
The US President has done it again. Just when you think things can't get any more—"unusual"— in the White House,…
The Spaceline: an Elevator From the Earth to the Moon
A team of scientists recently proposed an alternative to a Space Elevator - the "Spaceline", a tether that extends from…
Elon Musks Says that his Next Starship Could be Twice as Big
According to Musk's latest tweet, SpaceX's next rocket could be twice as big (and eight times the volume) as the…
Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
Work on the Mars 2020 Rover is heating up as the July/August 2020 launch date approaches. Mission engineers just attached…