Weekly Space Hangout – January 13, 2017: News Roundup Plus Update on Tabby’s Star!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter)…
What Will the Voyager Spacecraft Encounter Next? Hubble Helps Provide a Roadmap
The twin Voyager spacecraft are now making their way through the interstellar medium. Even though they are going where none…
Stars at the Edge of our Galaxy May Have Been Stolen
A new study produced by astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows how some of the most distant stars in…
Land On Titan With Huygens in Beautiful New Video
On December 25, 2004, the piggybacking Huygens probe was released from the ‘mothership’ Cassini spacecraft and it arrived at Titan…
A “Breakthrough” to Search for Planets in Closest Star System to Earth
The European Southern Observatory and Breakthrough Initiatives have come together for purpose of finding habitable planets beyond Earth.
Finally, An Explanation for the Alien Megastructure?
A new study by a team of researchers from Columbia University and Berkeley proposes the most plausible explanation yet for…
What is the International Space Station?
In orbit of Earth, at an altitude of between 330 and 435 km (205 and 270 mi), is the International…
Venus Rules the Dusk Skies at Greatest Elongation
“What's that bright light in the sky?” The planet Venus never fails to impress, and indeed make even seasoned observers…
Confirmed: We Really are ‘Star Stuff’
Scientist Carl Sagan said many times that “we are star stuff,” from the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in…
Could We Marsiform Ourselves?
Changing another world to support Earth life is called terraforming. But maybe it's a better idea to just change Earth…