Carnival of Space #576
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Another Juno Flyby, Another Amazing Sequence of Images of Jupiter
With its latest flyby of Jupiter, the Juno mission took more pictures with its JunoCam, which citizen scientists have once…
New Horizons Sees its Next Target for the First Time: Ultima Thule. Flyby Happens January 1, 2019
Earlier this month, the New Horizons team managed to capture the first images of Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt Object…
Construction on the Orion Capsule is Done. Next it’ll be Sent to Florida for Final Assembly
The Orion space capsule that will send astronauts on a flyby of the Moon just arrived at the Kennedy Space…
Are We Witnessing the Start of Solar Cycle 25?
What's up with the Sun? As we've said previous, what the Sun isn't doing is the big news of 2018…
Hayabusa’s Target Itokawa Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago, But Then it Was Smashed Up About 1.5 Billion Years Ago
According to new research by a team of Japanese researchers, samples from the Itokawa asteroid provide new clues to the…
Look at all the Aerosols Pushed into the Atmosphere, from Fires, Volcanoes and Pollution. Even Sea Salt Thrown into the Air from Hurricanes
Using the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model, NASA recently released a visualization that showed all the…
This is a 3D map of 400,000 Hot Massive Stars Located Within 10,000 Light-Years From the Sun, Thanks to Gaia!
The latest gem to come from the second release of Gaia data is a 3D map that shows the positions…
We’re in the Milky Way’s Second Life. Star Formation was Shut Down for Billions of Years
According to a new study, the Milky Way Galaxy experienced two periods of star formation, with a two-billion dormancy period…
There are so Many Water-Worlds Out There
According to new research that was presented at the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference, "water worlds" may be more common than previously…