Top Astronomy Events For 2019
You might've heard the news. We wrote a book this past year: The Universe Today's Ultimate Guide to Observing the…
Weekly Space Hangout: Dec 26, 2018 The Year in Review
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 510: 2018 – Year in Review
2018 was an incredible year in space news. Rockets launched, landers landed, spacecraft were born and died. We learned tremendous…
This Crater on Mars Traps the Cold, and Remains Filled With Ice, All Year Round
Just in time for the holidays, the ESO's Mars Express mission revealed a breathtaking image of a Martian crater that…
The Equuleus Constellation
Welcome to another edition of Constellation Friday! Today, in honor of the late and great Tammy Plotner, we take a…
New Research Reveals How Galaxies Stay Hot and Bothered
It's relatively easy for galaxies to make stars. Start out with a bunch of random blobs of gas and dust.…
InSight Just Placed its Seismometer onto the Surface of Mars to Listen for Marsquakes
NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument on the surface of Mars. On December 19th, the stationary lander used…
Remember the Discovery of Methane in the Martian Atmosphere? Now Scientists Can’t Find any Evidence of it, at all
According to recently-reported results from the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter, it appears that there may not be any methane in…
Even if Exoplanets Have Atmospheres With Oxygen, it Doesn’t Mean There’s Life There
In their efforts to find evidence of life beyond our Solar System, scientists are forced to take what is known…
The Saturn Nebula Kind of Looks Like the Planet in a Small Telescope, But in One of the Most Powerful Telescopes on Earth, it Looks Like This
Saturn is an icon. There's nothing else like it in the Solar System, and it's something even children recognize. But…