2018 Prospects for Obscure Comet 38P Stephan-Oterma
Ready for one more? While all eyes are still following Comet 21/P Giacobini-Zinner as it glides through northern hemisphere skies,…
Lockheed Martin Unveils Their Proposal For a Lunar Lander
In the coming decades, NASA has ambitious plans to send astronauts back to the Moon and conduct the first crewed…
New Dwarf Planet Found in the Outskirts of the Solar System, Giving Astronomers More Ammunition to Search for Evidence of Planet 9
Astronomers have found a new dwarf planet way out beyond Pluto that never gets closer than 65 AUs to the…
Dark Matter Isn’t Made From Black Holes
A new study by a team of UC Berkeley researchers has shown that black holes are not the long-sought-after source…
Good night Kepler. NASA’s Planet Hunter is Almost out of Fuel, and has Gone Into Sleep Mode
The Kepler mission is coming to an end. The planet-hunting spacecraft that transformed our understanding of exoplanets and other solar…
Japanese Rovers are Now on the Surface of an Asteroid, Sending Back Amazing Pictures
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 recently deployed its rovers to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, which then sent back some…
Weekly Space Hangout: Oct 3, 2018 – Dr. David Warmflash
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
A Tiny Motor on Curiosity was one of the First Instruments to Notice the Global Martian Dust Storm
A tiny actuator on a sample arm on the Curiosity rover gave the first indication that a storm on the…
A New Solution to the Space Junk Problem. Spacecraft with Plasma Beams to Force Space Junk to Burn Up
A Japanese-Australian team is developing a new way to remove space junk from orbit and sending it harmlessly towards Earth.
NASA Tests a Tiny Satellite to Track Extreme Weather and Storms
NASA recently deployed a technology demonstrator called the RainCube, a miniature satellite that could revolutionize how we monitor weather