JunoCam Wows Us Again With Detailed Images of the Great Red Spot

By Evan Gough - September 27, 2018 05:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Dazzling images from the JunoCam show the intricate detail of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Is the Solar System's longest-lived storm shrinking?

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Titan First-Ever Detected Dust Storms Prove the Moon is More Earth-like than Ever

By Matthew Williams - September 27, 2018 04:18 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Based on Cassini data, an international team of scientists found evidence of dust storms on Titan, yet another thing it has in common with Earth.

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Carnival of Space #580

By susie - September 27, 2018 03:44 PM UTC | Site News

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NASA Spots Opportunity as the Dust Storm Clears. Still No Word From Her Though

By Matthew Williams - September 26, 2018 11:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

With the recent Martian dust storm clearing, NASA managed to spot the Opportunity rover on the surface, though communications have yet to resume.

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Optical Rocket Boosts Electrons to Nearly the Speed of Light

By Matthew Williams - September 26, 2018 02:13 PM UTC | Physics

In a new experiment, a team of researchers used laser pulses to accelerate photons to near the speed of light, which could have immense applications for space flight and particle physics.

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Musk Gives an Update on When a Mars Colony Could be Built

By Matthew Williams - September 25, 2018 11:47 PM UTC | Space Exploration

In a recent tweet, SpaceX founder Elon Musk indicated that his company may be able to build a Martian colony as early as 2028.

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Matter is Going Into this Black Hole at 30% the Speed of Light

By Evan Gough - September 25, 2018 03:40 PM UTC | Black Holes

A team of researchers in the UK have observed matter falling into a black hole at 30% the speed of light. They may have discovered why black holes in the early universe grew so quickly.

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Astronomers are Tracking the Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua to its Home System

By Matthew Williams - September 24, 2018 10:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

An international team of astronomers have used data from the Gaia satellite to backtrack 'Oumuamua to one of four star systems.

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The Milky Way is Still Rippling from a Galactic Collision Millions of Years Ago

By Evan Gough - September 24, 2018 06:26 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Astronauts Could Use the ScanMars Device to Search for Water on Mars

By Evan Gough - September 24, 2018 03:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Here are the First Pictures From the Parker Solar Probe. Wait... That's Not the Sun

By Matthew Williams - September 24, 2018 01:53 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

The Parker Solar Probe recently collected its first-light data in order to test its instruments, and snapped some beautiful pictures of the cosmos.

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Astronomers find Planet Vulcan - 40 Eridani A - Right Where Star Trek Predicted it.

By Matthew Williams - September 21, 2018 07:29 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Inside the Crust of Neutron Stars, There's Nuclear Pasta; the Hardest Known Substance in the Universe

By Matthew Williams - September 21, 2018 02:00 PM UTC | Stars

A new study has shown that "nuclear pasta", which exists beneath crust of a neutron star, is the strongest material is the Universe.

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Ice Volcanoes on Ceres are Still Actively Blasting out Material

By Evan Gough - September 20, 2018 02:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Narrowing Down the Mass of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - September 20, 2018 01:35 PM UTC | Milky Way

Using information from Gaia's second data release, a team of scientists have made refined measurements of the mass of the Milky Way.

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Last Year's Gravitational Wave Detections Failed to Provide a Hint of Any Extra Spatial Dimensions

By Matthew Williams - September 20, 2018 12:09 AM UTC | Physics

In a new study, astrophysicists used the gravitational waves from last year's kilonova event to determine if the Universe has additional dimensions.

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Carnival of Space #579

By susie - September 19, 2018 04:57 PM UTC | Site News

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How to Know Once and For All if the Universe Began With a Bang or a Bounce

By Matthew Williams - September 19, 2018 03:57 PM UTC | Cosmology

In a recent study, a team of Harvard University scientists presented a new means of ruling out alternative explanations for how our Universe began.

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Weekly Space Hangout: Sept 15, 2018: Live from AC500 Weekend!

By Fraser Cain - September 19, 2018 03:47 PM UTC | Site News

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Heralding the 2018 Harvest Moon

By David Dickinson - September 19, 2018 12:00 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Following the Moon lately? The up and coming Full Moon is the most famous of them all, as we approach the Harvest Moon for 2018.

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