Astronomy
Fear Not the Moon, Perseids Always a Great Show
Get ready for the darling of meteor showers this week — the Perseids. Who can deny their appeal? Not only…
Hypervelocity Neutron Stars Crashing Into White Dwarfs — A Scenario for the Loneliest Supernovae?
It’s hard to comprehend the vast emptiness of space. Especially when we detect odd signatures, such as luminous explosions that…
Video: Watch The Moon Slowly Blot Out Saturn In Australia
Wow! Check out this video of the Moon passing in front of Saturn from a viewpoint in Brisbane, Australia. This…
Wow! Gas Bridge In The Universe Stretches 2.6 Million Light-Years Across
How the heck did all that gas get there? Researchers have discovered an astonishing amount of it bridging galaxies, stretching…
Robot Spacecraft Swarm Among Group Tapped For More NASA Funding
How do crazy but neat ideas such as the Mars crane make it to space? It's through years, sometimes decades,…
Hubble Archive Reveals Possible Culprit for Enigmatic Supernova
More than two decades of Hubble observations have produced more than 25 terabytes of data. Thanks to the wealth of…
Where Exactly Is Pluto? Pinpoint Precision Needed For New Horizons Mission
When you have a spacecraft that takes the better part of a decade to get to its destination, it's really,…
Can A ‘Planet-Like Object’ Start Its Life Blazing As Hot As A Star?
Nature once again shows us how hard it is to fit astronomical objects into categories. An examination of a so-far…
This Robotic Laser System On A Telescope Is Looking At Alien Planets
There's a group of people probing exoplanets with a laser robot, and the results are showing a few surprises. Specifically,…
New Image Captures one of the Brightest Volcanoes Ever Seen in the Solar System
Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io — with over 400 active volcanoes, extensive lava flows and floodplains of liquid rock — is…