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Debris from DART could Hit Earth and Mars Within a Decade
On Sept. 26th, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid…
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Set to Perform This Fall
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may be one to watch for at dawn late next month.
See JUICE Next Week During Its Earth-Moon Flyby
Well-placed observers have a rare opportunity to see an interplanetary spacecraft early next week.
New Study Shows Mars Could be Terraformed Using Resources that are Already There
The idea of terraforming Mars, making its atmosphere and environment more Earth-like for human settlement, goes back decades. During that…
NASA’s Says Goodbye to its Asteroid-Hunting NEOWISE Mission
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in 2009, spent the next fourteen and half years studying the Universe in…
The Next Solar Cycle Has Started… But the Current One Hasn’t Finished Yet
We may be already seeing the makings of next solar cycle, peeking out through the current one.
New Study Examines the Links Between Science Fiction and Astronomy
“Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.” This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction.…
Scientists Develop a Novel Method for Detecting Supermassive Black Holes: Use Smaller Black Holes!
In 1974, astronomers Bruce Balick and Robert L. Brown discovered a powerful radio source at the center of the Milky…
New Study Suggests that Our Galaxy is Crowded or Empty. Both are Equally Terrifying!
Is there intelligent life in the Universe? And if so, just how common is it? Or perhaps the question should…
Elliptical Orbits Could be Essential to the Habitability of Rocky Planets
A seismic shift occurred in astronomy during the Scientific Revolution, beginning with 16th-century polymath Copernicus and his proposal that the…