Astronomy
A Simulation of Sunsets on Other Worlds: From Venus to Titan
A new tool from NASA Goddard allows us to witness what a sunset would look like on other bodies in…
Another Collection of Newly Forming Planetary Systems. This Time from the Gemini Planet Imager
Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these 'scopes will be in high…
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Normally the images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently sitting near “Bloodstone Hill” on Mars, are of alien vistas and rock…
Calculate the Number of Alien Civilizations in the Milky Way for Yourself.
A new online tool created by a team of physicists allows users to calculate how many alien civilization could be…
New Hubble Photos of Planetary Nebulae
Planetary nebulae are astronomy's gateway drug. Their eye-catching forms make us wonder what process created them, and what else is…
Another Starship Test Ends in an Explosion (Intentionally This Time)
At their Boca Chica test facility, SpaceX tested another Starship prototype (SN7) to the point of failure, which resulted in…
There’s no evidence that dark matter interacts with any other force but gravity
Most of the universe is made of one of two kinds of mysterious substances, called dark matter and dark energy.…
Planets Form in Just a Few Hundred Thousand Years
Astronomers like to observe young planets forming in circumstellar debris disks, the rotating rings of material around young stars. But…
Comet U6 Lemmon Brightens in July
Comet U6 Lemmon promises to be a fine binocular object at dusk.
Antares is a supergiant star that would fill the Solar System beyond Mars, but its atmosphere is 12 times bigger than that
Antares, the angry red eye of the constellation Taurus the bull, is a red supergiant star near the end of…