Astronomy
Earth To Mars In 100 Days? The Power Of Nuclear Rockets
The Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world with traditional…
Our Complete Guide to the July 2019 Total Solar Eclipse
You couldn't order up a geekier celestial scene from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three…
The Most Efficient Way to Explore the Entire Milky Way, Star by Star
At this year's Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC), a team from the ESA presented a model for how humanity could…
Hubble Finds Buckyballs in Space
Scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have found a very complex molecule out there in space. Called Buckyballs, after…
Of Course Mars 2020 is Going to Get a New Name. NASA is Looking for Judges for an Upcoming Naming Contest
NASA and its partner organizations are launching the "Name that Rover" competition, which gives students from all over the US…
Uranus’ Rings are Surprisingly Bright in Thermal Emissions
New observations by ALMA and the VLT provide the most-detailed look yet at Uranus' system of rings, revealing things about…
Messier 88 – the NGC 4501 Spiral Galaxy
Located in the Coma Berenices constellation, about 50 to 60 million light-years from Earth, is the spiral galaxy known as…
Deep Space Atomic Clocks Will Help Spacecraft Answer, with Incredible Precision, if They’re There Yet
How do spacecraft know where they are? There's no GPS out there. Right now, it involves sending a signal to…
Want to Find Aliens? The Largest Dataset in the History of SETI has Been Released to the Public
Breakthrough Listen has just released their latest analysis of the past three years of their SETI research, as well as…
Stunning Image Shows How Saturn’s Tiny Moon Sculpts the Planet’s Rings
The Cassini mission to Saturn ended a year and a half ago, but scientific results are still coming from all…