Astronomy
Tales of a ‘Drunken Comet’- Astronomers Detect Alcohol Leaking From 46P/Wirtanen into Space
A close pass of Comet Wirtanen in 2018, offered researchers an unprecedented opportunity.
The "Crisis in Cosmology" Might not be a Crisis After all
Our measurements of cosmic expansion might be better than we've thought. Maybe even good enough to make cosmic tension go…
The Square Kilometer Array has Gotten the Official Green Light to Begin Construction
The Square Kilometer Array, the largest radio telescope ever proposed, just commenced construction in South Africa and Australia.
The Center of the Milky Way is the Most Likely Place to Find a Galactic Civilization
Aim for the Center The Milky Way is 13 BILLION years old. Some of our Galaxy's oldest stars were born…
NASA Continues to Try and Rescue Failing Hubble
The search for Hubble's error continues, and could involve some complex and risky operations really soon!
A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object
When Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed passing through the Solar System, was discovered in 2017, it exhibited some…
To Take the Best Direct Images of Exoplanets With Space Telescopes, we’re Going to Want Starshades
The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) has released a special edition of papers dedicated to educating the…
Modern Solar Eclipse Science: Huge Coronal Mass Ejection Caught in Action
There’s an old adage that says there is ‘nothing new under the Sun…’ but that doesn’t apply when it comes…
LightSail 2 Has Now Been in Space for 2 Years, and Should Last Even Longer Before Re-Entering the Atmosphere
The Planetary Society's crowdfunded solar-sailing CubeSat, LightSail 2, launched on June 25th 2019, and two years later the mission is…
The First Chinese Crew is Busy on their New Space Station
In the past week, the first three Chinese astronauts to go the Tiangong space station prepared for all the operations…