Universe Today
Water Discovered in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet in the Habitable zone. It Might Be Rain
Astronauts Try Mixing Concrete in Space
Entrepreneurs and Engineers Come Together to Design a Peaceful Lunar Settlement
The OpenLuna Foundation wants to create a base on the Moon using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to allow the public to take part in lunar colonization.
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China's FAST Telescope, the World's Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope, is Now Fully Operational
NASA Tests Autonomous Lunar Landing Technology
Time and Space: The Strange Reality of Reality
Whoa. Lakes on Titan Might be the Craters from Massive Underground Explosions
This is Why Saturn's Rotation is So Hard to Measure
Gravitational Wave Detectors Might be Able to Detect Dark Matter Particles Colliding With Their Mirrors
According to a new study by a team of Japanese researchers, gravitational wave detectors could be used to confirm the existence of a major Dark Matter candidate.
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Carnival of Space #627
Chandrayaan 2 Mission Loses Contact With Vikram Lander During Descent
The ISRO dispatched their Vikram lunar lander towards the lunar surface today, but lost contact with it just before it was meant to touch down.
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Mercury has Magnetic Poles that Drift Like Earth's
This Star Has Reached the End of its Life
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid deflection in the coming years.
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It Hasn't Rained on Mars for a Long Time, but These Sand Dunes Look Like Raindrops, and They're Filled with Chemicals Made in Water
A recent image from the MRO shows rows of olivine-rich dunes in the Copernicus Crater on Mars, a feature that is quite rare here on Earth.
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Thanks to Trump, We've Got a Better Idea of the Capabilities of US Surveillance Satellites
The Spaceline: an Elevator From the Earth to the Moon
A team of scientists recently proposed an alternative to a Space Elevator - the "Spaceline", a tether that extends from the lunar surface into Earth's gravity well.
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Elon Musks Says that his Next Starship Could be Twice as Big
According to Musk's latest tweet, SpaceX's next rocket could be twice as big (and eight times the volume) as the Starship and Super Heavy!
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Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
A 3D Printed Telescope: The Analog Sky Drifter
A unique 3d printed telescope named the Analog Sky Drifter may spark a revolution in amateur telescope making.
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Carnival of Space #626
By Continuously Watching the Moon, we Could Detect Interstellar Meteorites
In a new study, a pair Harvard scientists calculated how often interstellar objects could collide with our Moon, and how we might study them to learn more of what lies beyond our Solar System.
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Even Though it Hasn't Launched Yet, JUICE Took its First Images of Jupiter and its Moons
Bringing Mars To Earth. The Plans For a Mars Sample Return Mission
SpaceX Starship Hopper Prototype Makes its Highest Hop Test So Far!
SpaceX just completed the second hop test of their Starship Hopper prototype, bringing the company one step closer to full-scale tests and commercial missions to the Moon and Mars!
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Asteroid Ryugu is a "Fragile Rubble Pile"
There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth
According to a recent study presented at this year's Goldschmidt Geochemistry Congress, there may be exoplanets out there that are more habitable than Earth
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Upgraded ISS Now Has a 600 Megabit per Second Internet Connection
How Do We Settle on the Moon?
Astrobotic is Going to Use a Vulcan Rocket For its Lunar Lander in 2021
The commercial delivery company Astriobiotic will be working with the ULA to send payloads to the Moon for NASA beginning in 2021.
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Astronomers Image the Atmosphere of a Red Dwarf Planet for the First Time. Spoiler Alert, it's a Terrible Place to Live
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was able to study the surface of an exoplanet orbiting a nearby red dwarf star for the first time.
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A Spacecraft Is Going To Assemble Its Own Solar Panels In Space: Archinaut One
Earth is an Exoplanet to Aliens. This is What They'd See
A team of Caltech researchers developed a new method that shows what Earth would look like to extra-terrestrial observers, which could seriously aid in the hunt for habitable exoplanets.
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AI Could Help the Europa Clipper Mission Make New Discoveries!
A team of NASA scientists recently developed a series of machine learning algorithms that could help the Europa Clipper find life beyond Earth!
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Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE
ExoMars Parachute Test Fails, for the Second Time
The ExoMars 2020 mission hit another snag recently when a high-altitude parachute test resulted in damage again to one of the mission's parachute canopies.
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Carnival of Space #625
Why Build Big Rockets at All? It's Time for Orbital Refueling
An Astrophotographer Noticed a Chunk of Ice Orbiting Comet 67P in Rosetta's Photos
Neutron Star Suffers a "Glitch", Gives Astronomers a Glimpse Into How They Work
Rocket Lab is Going to try to Re-use its First Stage Booster, Catching it in Mid-air With a Helicopter
CEO Peter Beck of Rocket Lab recently announced that his company will begin retrieving the first stage of its Electron rocket with a helicopter.
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Milky Way's Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
Spacecraft Gyroscopes And Reaction Wheels. You Can Never Have Enough
Hardy Tardigrades on Board Israel's Beresheet Lander Probably Survived the Crash
Astronomers Uncover Dozens of Previously Unknown Ancient and Massive Galaxies
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Tokyo used ALMA to view 39 previously-undiscovered ancient galaxies.
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Carnival of Space #624
A Monster Black Hole has been Found with 40 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun
NASA Tests Water Powered Spacecraft in Orbit
A Bunch of New Names for Pluto's Surface Features Were Just Approved
Traces of One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe Found Inside Another Star
