Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Here’s an Aerial View of a Massive Iceberg Shearing away from Antarctica
Members of the British Antarctic Survey shot a video of the wide crack in the Antarctic Larsen Ice Sheet, which…
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon
The Event Horizon Telescope should give us our first picture of a Black Hole in the beginning of 2018.
Huge News, Seven Earth-Sized Worlds Orbiting a Red Dwarf, Three in the Habitable Zone
In what is the biggest announcement in exoplanet-hunting history, NASA has announced the discovery of seven rocky exoplanets around a…
Here’s Something We Never Thought We’d See on a Comet: Shifting Dunes
The Rosetta mission’s close-up views of the curiously-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have already changed some long-held ideas about comets. But here’s…
The Orbit of Venus. How Long is a Year on Venus?
As the second closest planet to our Sun, Venus takes 224.65 days to complete a single orbit around our Sun,…
United Arab Emirates Has a Plan to Colonize Mars with 600,000 People in 100 Years
During the 5th World Government Summit, the United Arab Emirates announced a bold plan to build a permanent settlement on…
Sad About Pluto? How about 110 Planets in the Solar System Instead?
A new geophysical definition has been proposed by a team of planetary scientists, one which would result in a Solar…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 441: Destroy and Rebuild, Pt. 5: Continental Drift
Want to travel the world but you don't have a lot of money? No problem, your continent is drifting across…
Drone Captures Amazing Footage of Falcon 9 Landing
Let's just take a moment to admire how amazing it is when science fiction becomes routinely real: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQtNTk4Brqp/ SpaceX CEO…