Astronomy
Betelgeuse Is Still Dimming! And We Have the Pictures to Prove It
Near the end of 2019, astronomers watching the red giant Betelgeuse noted how much the star had dimmed, continuing to…
Beautiful Exposed Bedrock and Sand Dunes on Mars
Impact craters can be quite complex. Depending on the size of the impactor, and on the size of the planet…
Mars Was Hit By a Lot of Protoplanets Early in its History, Taking Longer to Form than Previously Thought.
There are around 61,000 meteorites on Earth, or at least that's how many have been found. Out of those, about…
Catch Comet T2 PanSTARRS This Spring
Ready for the next great comet? First, the bad news. there is not (as of yet), a good naked eye…
A Rare Fast Radio Burst has been Found that Actually Repeats Every 16 Days
A team of scientists in Canada have found a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that repeats every 16 days. This is…
Here are the First Pictures from CHEOPS
The CHEOPS spacecraft is taking the first tentative steps in its mission. Back on January 29th, the spacecraft opened the…
Astronomers Have Some Serious Concerns About Starlink and Other Satellite Constellations
Picture the space around Earth filled with tens of thousands of communications satellites. That scenario is slowly coming into being,…
SpaceX is Thinking of Spinning Off Starlink and Taking it Public
SpaceX recently announced that it could be taking Starlink public, giving investors a chance to get a piece of this…
The ESA’s Solar Orbiter, a Mission That Will Chart the Unexplored Polar Regions of the Sun, Just Launched!
The ESA's Solar Orbiter launched earlier today on its five-year mission to study the Sun, which scientists hope will lead…
A Meteor Smashed Into Mars in 2005, Making this Crater
NASA has repeatedly imaged the Martian surface, and sometimes a feature appears that wasn't there in prior images. That's what…