What’s That Bright Star in the Sky?
What's that bright light in the sky? How come I never noticed it before? That's not a star at all,…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 27, 2017: Kimberly Cartier & Exoplanet WASP 103b
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) (more…)
Space Jellyfish Show Types Of Pulsar Wind Nebulas
A series of studies based on data obtained from Chandra X-ray observatory may held shed light on the mysteries of…
Carl Sagan’s Theory Of Early Mars Warming Gets New Attention
Carl Sagan hit on the idea 40 years ago. Now, a team of scientists have discovered that a trifecta of…
A Farewell to Plutoshine
Sometimes, its not the eye candy aspect of the image, but what it represents. A recent image of Pluto's large…
Rogue NASA, EPA, NPS Twitter Accounts Launched to Protest Trump Directives
Rogue sites protesting the Trump team's new guidelines for federal agencies are popping up everywhere.
NASA Webb Telescope Resumes Rigorous Vibration Qualification Tests
Engineers have resumed a series of critical and rigorous vibration qualification tests on NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
Galactic Stripping Mystery Uncovered
It's what you might call a case of galactic homicide (or "galacticide"). All over the known Universe, satellite galaxies are…
Juno Just Took One Of The Best Images Of Jupiter Ever
Wow! If you've ever wanted to know what it would be like to hang above Jupiter's clouds, here you go.…
Japan Becomes A Military Space Player With Latest Launch
In a potentially controversial move, Japan recently deployed an x-band communications satellite to reduce its reliance on other providers for…