One Feature Mars has That we Don't: Polar Megadunes

By Matthew Williams - December 13, 2021 06:50 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New renderings from Kevin M Gill show a unique feature on Mars: the northern polar Chasma Boreale Megadunes!

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Even Really Massive Stars Seem to Have Planets

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2021 04:17 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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This Incredible Photo of the Sun is Made up of 150,000 Individual Photographs

By Nancy Atkinson - December 13, 2021 04:13 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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M87's Supermassive Black Hole is Spewing out a Spiraling jet of Material

By Andy Tomaswick - December 13, 2021 08:21 AM UTC | Black Holes

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Not Just Water, There Could be Frozen Carbon Dioxide on the Moon too

By Andy Tomaswick - December 12, 2021 09:38 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Parker Solar Probe Hurtles Past the Sun, Making its Closest Approach so far

By Andy Tomaswick - December 12, 2021 09:08 AM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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The Constellation Fornax

By tammy-plotner - December 10, 2021 05:30 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Galaxies Have Been Found With no Dark Matter at all

By Matthew Williams - December 10, 2021 04:51 PM UTC | Extragalactic

According to new research led by Dutch astronomers, there may be lots of galaxies in the Universe that have no Dark Matter.

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After 10 Days of Dangerous, Careful Work, James Webb has Been Fully Fueled up

By Matthew Williams - December 10, 2021 02:01 PM UTC | Missions

After many MANY delays, the James Webb Space Telescope is fully-fueled and ready for the final stage of preparations before launch (still on for Dec. 22nd)!

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Brrrr: Bundle Up For the 2021 Geminid Meteors

By David Dickinson - December 10, 2021 10:55 AM UTC | Planetary Science

One of the best annual meteor showers of the year, the Geminids top off 2021.

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NASA Launches a New X-ray Observatory

By Nancy Atkinson - December 10, 2021 09:45 AM UTC | Missions

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Hubble is Fully Operational Once Again

By Matthew Williams - December 09, 2021 05:32 PM UTC | Telescopes

After suffering a technical glitch and going into sleep mode for the second time this year, Hubble is once again back online!

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NASA's New Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Comes Online

By Evan Gough - December 09, 2021 05:12 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Company Tests Iodine Thruster in Space for the First Time

By Andy Tomaswick - December 09, 2021 04:18 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Just Look at the Jaw-Dropping Detail of These Storms on Jupiter

By Nancy Atkinson - December 09, 2021 12:15 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy has a Surprisingly Massive Black Hole in its Heart

By Matthew Williams - December 08, 2021 04:23 PM UTC | Black Holes

New research from UT Austin shows that dwarf galaxies - like our neighbor, Leo I - also have massive black holes at their centers!

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TESS Finds a New Mars-Sized Planet (With the Density of Mercury)

By Evan Gough - December 08, 2021 04:19 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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A New Way to Detect Alien Megastructures

By Matthew Cimone - December 08, 2021 11:04 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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'I'm Truly Happy': Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Floats Into Space Station

By Alan Boyle - December 08, 2021 02:50 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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The Gamow Explorer Would be a new Gamma-ray Observatory to Search for the First Stars in the Universe... as They Explode

By Andy Tomaswick - December 07, 2021 10:44 PM UTC | Cosmology

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