The Moon Might Be More Metal-Rich Than We Thought

By Evan Gough - July 07, 2020 04:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Amateur Astronomers Find a Brand New Storm on Jupiter

By Brian Koberlein - July 07, 2020 02:24 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Amateur astronomers have discovered a new storm near the Great Red Spot.

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Betelgeuse Probably Dimmed Because of Enormous Starspots

By Evan Gough - July 07, 2020 12:58 PM UTC | Stars

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NGC 2275: An Absolute Unit of Galactic Flocculence

By Nancy Atkinson - July 07, 2020 10:29 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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China's Mars Rover Launches in Late July

By Evan Gough - July 06, 2020 06:26 PM UTC | Missions

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There's a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day

By Matthew Williams - July 06, 2020 05:06 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Astronomers See Through the Milky Way's Dust to Track Where Radiation is Coming From at the Center of the Galaxy

By Evan Gough - July 06, 2020 04:48 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Breakthrough Listen Releases its one-of-Everything "Exotica" Catalog

By Matthew Williams - July 05, 2020 04:00 PM UTC | Astrobiology

Breakthrough Listen, the largest SETI effort ever mounted, just released a list of over 700 objects that could be of interest to people looking for aliens!

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One of the Best Pictures Ever Taken of ISS from the Ground. You Can Even See the Canadarm2

By Nancy Atkinson - July 04, 2020 01:31 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Help NASA Develop a Better Space Toilet

By Matthew Williams - July 03, 2020 09:09 PM UTC | Space Exploration

HeroX is one again hosting a NASA challenge, this time to develop a space toilet that will facilitate lunar exploration.

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Astronomers Might Have Seen a Star Just Disappear. Turning Straight to a Black Hole Without a Supernova

By Brian Koberlein - July 03, 2020 03:07 PM UTC | Black Holes

A brilliant blue star has disappeared from view, which could mean it became a black hole in a novel way.

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Behold! The Martian Menu, Courtesy of Mars City Design!

By Matthew Williams - July 02, 2020 11:04 PM UTC | Space Exploration

Every year since 2012, Mars City Design hosts the Mars Feast Gala, where talented chefs create tantalizing entrees based on what future generations could grow on Mars.

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It Was Almost Certainly an Asteroid Impact that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs. In Fact, Volcanoes Might Have Helped Life Recover

By Evan Gough - July 02, 2020 04:54 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Weekly Space Hangout: July 1, 2020 — Dr. Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley SETI Research Center

By nancygraz - July 02, 2020 03:26 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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This Weekend's Challenging Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Rounds Out the Summer Season

By David Dickinson - July 02, 2020 10:02 AM UTC | Observing

The July 4th Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Ends a Rare Triple Eclipse Season

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Complete and Total Mayhem in a Distant Galaxy Collision

By Evan Gough - July 01, 2020 06:36 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Here's How Perseverance's Helicopter Sidekick Will Deploy on Mars

By Andy Tomaswick - July 01, 2020 12:08 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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It might just be possible to see a light flash too when black holes merge

By Paul Sutter - June 30, 2020 09:50 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Rovers Will be Starting to Make Their Own Decisions About Where to Search for Life

By Evan Gough - June 30, 2020 05:40 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Comet F3 NEOWISE May Perform in July

By David Dickinson - June 30, 2020 02:32 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy

Watch for comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE at dusk in late July... if it survives perihelion.

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