There’s Life on the Moon! China’s Lander Just Sprouted the First Plants
The Chang'e-4 mission accomplished another first by being the first mission to grow plant life on the Moon. Unfortunately, the…
The Prototype for the Starship has been Assembled, Hop Tests Could be Happening Soon
In an announcement sure to make you quiver with delight, Elon Musk says that SpaceX could begin short-hop test flights…
Jupiter Meets Venus at Dawn in a Close Conjunction
You might be asking yourself: Where have all the planets gone? With Mars past its epic opposition in 2018 and…
Titan’s Thick Clouds Obscure our View, but Cassini Took these Images in Infrared, Showing the Moon’s Surface Features
Saturn's moon Titan is a very strange place. It's surrounded by a dense, opaque atmosphere, the only moon in the…
A New Technique to Figure Out How Old Stars Are
Our understanding of the universe, and of the Milky Way, is built on an edifice of individual pieces of knowledge,…
Bizarre Double Star System Flipped its Planetary Disk on its Side
An international research team recently found a binary star system with a debris disk that orbits around their poles.
Incredible Descent Video of the Chinese Lander to the Lunar Far Side
On January 2nd, 2019, China's Chang'e-4 lander made a successful landing on the far side of the Moon. The China…
Habitable Planets Around Red Dwarf Stars Might not get Enough Photons to Support Plant Life
A new study shows that planets orbiting red dwarf stars may not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis.
Messier 76 – the NGC 650/651 Planetary Nebula
Located in the Perseus constellation, about 2,500 light years from Earth, is the planetary nebula known as Messier 76.
Astronomers See the Exact Moment a Supernova Turned into a Black Hole (or Neutron Star)
On June 17th 2018, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey's twin telescopes spotted something extraordinarily bright in the…