Gas and Dust Seen Swirling Around our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
A team using ALMA has observed gas and dust cloudlets near the super massive black hole at the center of…
NASA Has Some Cool Space Sounds You Can Use for Ringtones
Have you always wanted some cool space sounds for your phone? Maybe a ringtone that says "Houston, Tranquility Base, here.…
This is How NASA Releases Almost Half a Million Gallons of Water in 60 Seconds
To keep the extremely powerful Space Launch System safe during launch, NASA has developed the IOP/SS (Ignition Overpressure Protection and…
To Find Evidence of Life on Exoplanets, Scientists Should Search for “Purple Earths”
Finding potentially habitable planets beyond our Solar System is no easy task. While the number of confirmed extra-solar planets has…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely
We're not learning that the vast majority of potentially habitable worlds out there are actually icy moons like Europa and…
Exos Aerospace Completes Successful Launch Test of Their SARGE Rocket
The commercial launch provider Exos aerospace successfully completed its launch test, pushing the company closer to providing greater access to…
How Hubble Unlocked the Universe
As engineers and technicians work diligently to diagnose and develop a solution (at best) or work around (at worst) the…
A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day
Astronomers observed a red dwarf superflare much more powerful than anything our Sun can produce. Bad news for any habitable-zone…
How Mission Delays Hurt Young Astronomers
Back in Ye Olden Times, the job of astronomer was a pretty exclusive club. Either you needed to be so…
A Star Exploded as a Supernova and Then Collapsed Into a Neutron Star. But Only a Fraction of its Matter was Released
An international team of scientists recently witnessed the birth of a binary neutron star system, which was indicated by a…