It Looks Like Dark Matter Can be Heated Up and Moved Around
Look at a galaxy, what do you see? Probably lots of stars. Nebulae too. And that's probably it. A whole…
Interstellar Objects like Oumuamua Probably Crash into the Sun Every 30 Years or so and 2 Pass Within the Orbit of Mercury
A new study by a team of Harvard scientists reveals how we could study future interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua
Weekly Space Hangout: Jan 9, 2019 – Lucianne Walkowicz
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
TESS Finds its Third Planet, a sub-Neptune with a 36-Day Orbit
After only three months of operation, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft is delivering on its mission to find…
China’s Yutu-2 rover is on the move on the far side of the Moon
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) accomplished a historic feat last week (Thurs. Jan. 3rd) by landing a robotic mission…
Check out this Amazing Picture of the Triangulum Galaxy by Hubble.
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
Still no Word from Opportunity
Could this be the end of the Opportunity rover? There's been no signal from the rover since last summer, when…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 512: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
Finding planets is old news, we now know of thousands and thousands of the places. But the terrible irony is…
Carnival of Space #594
Welcome to the 594th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…
The SpaceX Starhopper has Three Raptor Engines on the Bottom
Over the holidays, a number of shutterbugs took pictures of the evolving architecture of SpaceX's Starship hopper.