Astronomy
Here’s Chang’e-5, Seen From Lunar Orbit
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander…
The Kilonova-Chasing Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer is About to be Watching the Whole Sky
Lately there has been a flood of interest in gravitational waves. After the first official detection at LIGO / Virgo…
A Real River Valley on Mars, Filled With Virtual Water by @Kevinmgill
Visual artist Kevin M. Gill's latest creation is an image of what Hypanis valles (an ancient river channel) on Mars…
A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
Astronomers Have Found Planet 9… in Another Solar System
Even with all we've learned about our own Solar System, especially in the last couple of decades, researchers still face…
China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
A Chinese probe has delivered the first samples to be collected from the Moon in more than 40 years, and…
A second set of even larger bubbles has been found blasting out of the Milky Way’s center
The first-ever all-sky X-ray map of our galaxy, provided by the ESA's eROSITA spacecraft, reveals two massive bubbles. These bubbles…
Gravitational interactions can drive comets and asteroids from Jupiter out to Neptune in just 10 years
Distances in the solar system are vast, and it typically takes millions of years for small bodies to migrate from…
Catch an Awe-Inspiring Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21st
The solar system’s two massive gas giant planets pair up at dusk on December 21st, with a rare conjunction of…
If We Used the Sun as a Gravitational Lens Telescope, This is What a Planet at Proxima Centauri Would Look Like
A recent study shows how the Sun could be used as a gravitational lens to take direct images of nearby…