Despite the Crash, SpaceIL is Going Back to the Moon with Beresheet 2
Beresheet, the unlikely lander built with donations to a non-profit group, crashed into the Moon. But that doesn't mean it…
Curiosity has Finally Sampled a Clay-Rich Region on Mars
It's hard to believe that MSL Curiosity has been on Mars for almost seven years. But it has, and during…
NASA Wants to Send a Low-Cost Mission to Explore Neptune’s Moon Triton
A team of researchers from NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) recently proposed a low-cost mission to explore…
Weekly Space Hangout: Apr 17, 2019 – Dr. Dorothy Oehler Talks “No Methane on Mars?”
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Pamela Gay (astronomycast.com / cosmoquest.org / @starstryder) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier…
Carnival of Space #607
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Ep. 526: Event Horizon Telescope and the Black Hole at M87
Today, of course, we're going to talk about the announcement from the Event Horizon Telescope and the first photograph of…
Scientists are Trying to Figure Out Why InSight’s “Mole” Can’t Dig Any Deeper
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are busy working with a replica InSight…
The Closest Star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, has a Planet in the Habitable Zone. Life Could be There Right Now
A new study by a team from the Carl Sagan institutes shows how life could survive the harsh radiation on…
SpaceX Does it Again with Second Retrieval of Falcon Heavy Rocket
This week, SpaceX conducted the first commercial launch of the Falcon Heavy (and second launch overall) and managed to bring…
Voyager and Pioneer’s Grand Tour of the Milky Way
A new study takes a look at where the Voyager and Pioneer probes might one day venture to as they…