Superfast Jet of Material Blasted Out From Last Year’s Neutron Star Merger
According to a new study by an international team of astronomers, last year's kilonova event (where two neutron stars merged)…
The Bizarre Picture is a 360-Degree View Around Curiosity on Mars
NASA recently released a 360-degree panoramic image based on images taken by the Curiosity rover, which showed its latest drilling…
Carnival of Space #578
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
A Mission to Deflect an Asteroid Just Moved into the Final Design and Assembly Phase
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, which will attempt to deflect a small asteroid in 2022, recently moved into…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 499: What is the proposed Hubble-Lemaitre Law?
We started out Astronomy Cast with the controversal decision to de-planet Pluto. And here we are, more than a decade…
A Japanese Company is About to Test a Tiny Space Elevator… in Space
A team of Japanese engineers recently constructed a scale-model of a space elevator, which will be sent to the ISS…
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?
For thousands of years, human being have been contemplating the Universe and seeking to determine its true extent. And whereas…
Japanese Startup is Working on a Reusable Rocketplane to Carry Passengers to Space, as Early as 2023
The Japanese startup PD Aerospace is developing a reusable space plane that will use a combination of jet engines and…
Cassini Data Has Revealed a Towering Hexagonal Storm at Saturn’s Northern Pole
Data from the Cassini mission has revealed a massive hexagonal shaped storm high in the stratosphere of Saturn's north pole.
This is the Exact Spot that ESA’s SMART-1 Crashed Into the Moon in 2006
Thanks to images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, it is now known exactly where the ESA's SMART-1 mission landed…