It’s almost time to say goodbye to another Martian friend. Plenty of missions to the Red Planet have gone silent...
Month: November 2022
Sometimes it’s tempting to imagine a supernatural hand behind the arrangement of celestial bodies. But the Universe is big, huge...
We reported a few weeks ago about an Earth gravity assist flyby for the Lucy mission. Around the same as...
When stars reach the end of their life cycle, they experience gravitational collapse at their centers and explode in a...
All stars are composed of mostly hydrogen and helium, but most stars also have measurable amounts of heavier elements, which...
Someday on Europa, there’ll be a robotic explorer diving beneath its icy surface to find volcanoes. Yes, even though it’s...
Estimating stellar age has always been a challenge for astronomers. Now, a certain class of exoplanets is making the process...
Since February 2019, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander has been making the first-ever...
Ever since astronomers first detected ultra high energy neutrinos coming from random directions in space, they have not been able...
Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it’s a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy’s back after 40 months of...