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Ganymede in Infrared Taken During Juno's Most Recent Flyby

By Matthew Williams - August 09, 2021 03:19 PM UTC | Planetary Science

With its latest flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, the Juno probe has created a new infrared map of Ganymede. This could lead to a better understanding of the moon's surface and interior ocean.

Astronomy Jargon 101: Magnetars

By Paul Sutter - August 08, 2021 08:51 PM UTC | Stars

Starship is Stacked on the Super Heavy Booster. The Tallest Rocket Ever Built

By Matthew Williams - August 07, 2021 06:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX achieved another milestone this week as the Starship and Super Heavy prototype were stacked and fully-integrated for the first time!

Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets From Destruction

By Brian Koberlein - August 07, 2021 12:55 PM UTC | Exoplanets

The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.

Light Pollution is Making it Harder for Animals to Find Their Way at Night

By sjohnston - August 07, 2021 09:24 AM UTC | Site News

Animals Could Have Been Around Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

By Matthew Williams - August 06, 2021 06:06 PM UTC | Astrobiology

According to new Earth sciences research, the oldest fossilized remains of animal life may have been found in the Canadian northwest.

Russia's new Module Kicks the Station out of Position, Causes a Delay for Starliner

By Matthew Williams - August 06, 2021 12:52 PM UTC | Space Exploration

The new Russian module temporarily kicked the ISS out of position, causing a delay for Boeing's Starliner mission.

The Tears of the Hero: Get Ready for the 2021 Perseid Meteors

By David Dickinson - August 06, 2021 08:44 AM UTC | Observing

A sure-fire summer shower, the Perseid meteors are set to put on a spectacular show this year.

Astronomy and Geophysics is Rife With Bullying and Harassment

By Matthew Williams - August 05, 2021 02:39 PM UTC | Site News

A new survey conducted by the Royal Astronomical Society has shown that the fields of astronomy and geophysics also suffer from a culture of bullying and harassment

Two Spacecraft are Flying Past Venus, Just 33 Hours Apart

By Andy Tomaswick - August 05, 2021 09:27 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Shadows on the Moon Could be Hiding Water, Even in the Daytime

By Andy Tomaswick - August 05, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Astronomers Find a Huge Planet Orbiting its Star at 6,000 Times the Earth-Sun Distance

By Andy Tomaswick - August 04, 2021 11:18 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Scientists Figure out how the Asteroid Belt Attacked the Dinosaurs

By Andy Tomaswick - August 04, 2021 10:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA is Going Ahead With a Hopping Lander to Explore the Lunar Surface

By Andy Tomaswick - August 03, 2021 10:53 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Two Bizarre red Asteroids Somehow Migrated From the Kuiper Belt all the way to the Main Asteroid Belt

By Andy Tomaswick - August 03, 2021 10:22 AM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA Chooses Falcon Heavy Over SLS to Launch Europa Clipper, Saving About $2 Billion

By Andy Tomaswick - August 02, 2021 09:17 AM UTC | Space Policy

A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction

By Matthew Williams - August 01, 2021 01:26 PM UTC | Black Holes

Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind a black hole for the first time!

Lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Fuel Tanks Pass a Critical Test, and Could Knock a lot of Weight off a Rocket's dry Mass

By Andy Tomaswick - July 31, 2021 11:01 PM UTC | Space Exploration

InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core

By Matthew Williams - July 30, 2021 03:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure and thickness of Mars' interior.

Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They're Probably Just Frozen Clay

By rcrewe - July 30, 2021 01:01 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Starliner Will try Again on August 3 After ISS "Emergency"

By Nancy Atkinson - July 30, 2021 11:14 AM UTC | Space Exploration

The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole

By Matthew Williams - July 29, 2021 05:07 PM UTC | Black Holes

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center of the Centaurus A galaxy.

Strange Intersecting Sand Dunes on Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 29, 2021 10:40 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Blue Origin Offers a $2 Billion Discount to get Back in the Lunar Lander Game

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 09:08 AM UTC | Space Policy

Searching for Dark Matter Inside the Earth

By Andy Tomaswick - July 29, 2021 08:52 AM UTC | Physics

A New Plan to Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts at Earth and Across the Solar System

By Matthew Williams - July 28, 2021 05:23 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Professor Avi Loeb has announced a new project that will search for 'Oumuamua-like objects in our Solar System, which could be artifacts of extraterrestrial spacecraft

Balloon Mission May Also Work to Detect Quakes on Venus

By David Dickinson - July 28, 2021 09:28 AM UTC | Planetary Science

An opportunity in 2019 lays the groundwork for balloon-borne detectors on Venus, working to unravel a key mystery.

This is how you get Tatooines. Binary Star Planet Formation

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 09:19 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Water Vapour has Been Discovered at Ganymede

By Andy Tomaswick - July 28, 2021 08:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Europe Launches its new Robotic arm, Which Will Crawl Around the International Space Station Like an Inchworm

By Andy Tomaswick - July 27, 2021 09:29 AM UTC | Space Exploration

Perseverance is About to Collect the First Sample on Mars That Could Eventually be Returned to Earth

By Matthew Williams - July 26, 2021 05:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Mission controllers at NASA are making final preparations for the Perseverance rover to obtain its first sample of Martian rock, which will be returned to Earth for analysis.

When the Sun Dies, Earth's Magnetosphere won't Provide Protection any More

By Andy Tomaswick - July 26, 2021 10:51 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Zhurong Finds its Own Parachute on the Surface of Mars

By Nancy Atkinson - July 26, 2021 10:36 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon Could "Hear" 70% of the Observable Universe

By Brian Koberlein - July 25, 2021 04:23 PM UTC | Cosmology

A gravitational-wave telescope on the Moon could span the gap between Earth-based and space-based observations.

Incredible! Astronomers see a Moon-Forming Disk Around a Newly Forming Planet

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:31 AM UTC | Exoplanets

Observing the Night Side of Venus is Actually Pretty Tricky

By Andy Tomaswick - July 25, 2021 10:11 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Russia Just Launched a New Science Module to the Space Station

By sjohnston - July 24, 2021 06:38 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new Balloon-Based Observatory Could Produce Images as Fine as Hubble

By Andy Tomaswick - July 24, 2021 05:08 PM UTC | Telescopes

The Moon has Been Mildly Preventing Coastal Erosion, in the 2030s, That Protection Ends

By Matthew Williams - July 23, 2021 09:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to a new study, the Moon will be entering an orbital phase by the mid-2030s, which will drastically affect sea level rises.

Scientists Have a new way to Predict the Most Damaging Solar Storms

By Andy Tomaswick - July 23, 2021 11:08 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Micrometeorites Churn up the Surface of Europa. If you Want to Find Life, You'll Need to dig Down a Meter or So

By Matthew Williams - July 22, 2021 09:13 PM UTC | Planetary Science

According to new research, impact craters caused by micrometeorites are the best place to look for evidence that life exists beneath Europa's icy shell.