ARCHIMEDES: Digging into the ice on Europa with lasers

By Matthew Williams - November 14, 2018 04:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration

To explore Europa for signs of life, NASA in investing in a number of technologies, which includes a laser-mining concept known as ARCHIMEDES

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Gaia Spots an Enormous Ghost Galaxy Right Next Door that's Being Dismantled by the Milky Way

By Evan Gough - November 14, 2018 04:15 PM UTC | Milky Way

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An Extremely Rare Gamma Ray Emitting Neutron Star Binary Has Been Found

By Matthew Williams - November 14, 2018 03:09 PM UTC | Stars

The VERITAS collaboration recently discovered a binary system with a very high-energy gamma-ray neutron star, the rarest and most extreme known object in the Universe.

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Catching Asteroid 3 Juno at Its Best

By David Dickinson - November 14, 2018 04:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Not all oppositions are created equal. This week's target offers a good case in point, as asteroid 3 Juno reaches its most favorable viewing position for the decade.

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Direct Observations of a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light-Years Away

By Matthew Williams - November 13, 2018 03:24 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO astronomers directly observed Beta Pictoris b over the course of four years and created a time-lapse video of its orbit.

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Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 14, 2018: Paul Sutter's "Your Place in The Universe"

By Fraser Cain - November 13, 2018 02:35 PM UTC | Site News

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Messier 71 - the NGC 6838 Globular Cluster

By tammy-plotner - November 12, 2018 03:00 PM UTC | Stars

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Carnival of Space #586

By Susie Murph - November 12, 2018 02:33 PM UTC | Site News

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 505: Seismology

By Susie Murph - November 12, 2018 02:22 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Not all the Earth's Water Came From Comets

By Evan Gough - November 09, 2018 05:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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SpaceX is going to build a mini-BFR to launch on a Falcon 9

By Matthew Williams - November 09, 2018 03:44 PM UTC | Space Exploration

According to Musk's latest update, SpaceX will be conducting a test flight of their BFR system next year using a miniature version of the spacecraft.

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Ancient Star Found that's Only Slightly Younger than the Universe Itself

By Matthew Williams - November 09, 2018 01:48 PM UTC | Stars

Thanks to a team from John Hopkins University, a star was recently discovered that is 13.5 billion years old, almost as old as the Universe itself!

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Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here's where it's going to touch down

By Matthew Williams - November 07, 2018 06:44 PM UTC | Planetary Science

After careful consideration, NASA has selected the location where the InSight lander will set down and begin surveying the interior of Mars

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That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous Journey

By Evan Gough - November 07, 2018 04:35 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Carnival of Space #585

By Susie Murph - November 07, 2018 04:02 PM UTC | Site News

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Weekly Space Hangout: Nov 7, 2018 - Colin Stuart 's "How to Live in Space"

By Fraser Cain - November 07, 2018 03:32 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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We Could Build a Powerful Laser and Let Any Civilizations Within 20,000 Light-Years Know We're Here. Although... Should We?

By Evan Gough - November 07, 2018 02:49 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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This Star Killed its Companion and is now Escaping the Milky Way

By Paul Sutter - November 07, 2018 08:11 AM UTC | Milky Way

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Astronomers Get as Close as They Can to Seeing the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - November 06, 2018 10:42 PM UTC | Milky Way

Thanks to the GRAVITY collaboration, astronomers have made the most detailed observations of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way to date.

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Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover

By Matthew Williams - November 05, 2018 06:53 PM UTC | Planetary Science

At the fourth Landing Site Workshop in October, NASA held a vote on where the Mars 2020 rover will land once it reaches the Red Planet

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