Starships Will be Launching From These Oil Drilling Platforms Bought by SpaceX

By Matthew Williams - January 24, 2021 04:11 PM UTC | Space Exploration

SpaceX has just acquired two former oil drilling rigs off the coast of Texas, which it is converting into launch facilities called Phobos and Deimos

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3-D Printing on the Moon. From Regolith to Paste to Useful Objects and Structures

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 02:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Massive Binary Stars Huddle Up Surprisingly Quickly

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 12:50 PM UTC | Stars

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The Largest Sea On Titan Could Be Over 300 Meters Deep

By Andy Tomaswick - January 24, 2021 10:27 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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You Can Actually See the Milky Way's Wave When You Map Its Stars

By Andy Tomaswick - January 23, 2021 03:22 PM UTC | Milky Way

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In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More Supermassive

By Brian Koberlein - January 23, 2021 12:32 PM UTC | Black Holes

A new study proposes that the upper mass limit for black holes could be a million times larger than we thought.

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The Universe in Formation. Hubble Sees 6 Examples of Merging Galaxies

By Matthew Cimone - January 23, 2021 12:11 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Virgin Orbit Successfully Launches a Batch of Satellites From an Airplane

By Matthew Williams - January 22, 2021 04:53 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Virgin Orbit has successfully tested its new air-launch system (LauncherOne) that will deliver small satellites to orbit in the near future.

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The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 03:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Only 31 Magnetars Have Ever Been Discovered. This one is Extra Strange. It's Also a Pulsar

By Andy Tomaswick - January 22, 2021 02:58 PM UTC | Stars

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The One Place on the Space Station Astronauts Aren't Supposed to Clean

By Nancy Atkinson - January 22, 2021 12:36 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs

By Brian Koberlein - January 21, 2021 05:51 PM UTC | Stars

Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break that limit for a time.

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Mars has Been Through Many Ice Ages in the Last Billion Years

By Evan Gough - January 21, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Habitat at Ceres Could be the Gateway to the Outer Solar System

By Matthew Williams - January 20, 2021 10:32 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal from the inventor of the E-sail shows how we could create an Earth-like space habitat around Ceres, which could be a gateway to the rest of the Solar System

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New Drones for Exploring Mars are Getting Tested in Iceland

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2021 04:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Astronomers Confirm That Darksat is About Half as Bright as an Unpainted Starlink

By Ralph Crewe - January 19, 2021 08:33 PM UTC | Space Policy

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This is a Simulation of the Interstellar Medium Flowing Like Smoke Throughout the Milky Way

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2021 03:12 PM UTC | Milky Way

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What Happens to Their Supermassive Black Holes When Galaxies Collide?

By Andy Tomaswick - January 19, 2021 02:58 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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The Solar Wind is More Attracted to the Earth's North Pole Than the South. Why?

By Andy Tomaswick - January 19, 2021 02:31 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

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The Magnetic Fields Swirling Within the Whirlpool Galaxy

By Andy Tomaswick - January 18, 2021 08:52 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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