Skywatchers’ delight: Northern Lights during lunar eclipse
Aurora forecast issued for the night of August 27 from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. (NOAA Space…
Titan is wider than Mercury, operates a complete methane weather cycle, and contains hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all Earth’s known oil and gas reserves. It is the only known world beyond Earth where you could stand beneath clouds beside a calm lake—provided you remained sealed inside a heated, oxygenated suit.
Titan is one of those places where a list of plain facts starts to sound like a pitch.…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Releases New Map Of Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot…
Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy
Modelling the time-varying gravity field The gravitational potential for Mars, U(r, λ, ϕ), can be expressed as a sum over…
How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning…
‘Blood moon’ lunar eclipse will cross U.S. weeks after solar eclipse — here’s when to watch
Two weeks after a total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers in southern Europe, a near-total lunar eclipse is set…
How to see the partial ‘blood moon’ eclipse in Southern California
Angelenos are exactly where they need to be to see Thursday’s partial “blood moon” lunar eclipse — provided…
From spy satellite to space telescope: The unlikely origins of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
NASA took the guts out of old spy satellites to build the groundbreaking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope…
Fast and Furious Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies
While our Sun was born almost five billion years ago, there are brand new stars forming today. Within…
Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent…
SpaceX is ‘attractively valued’ after $100 billion Louisiana spaceport plan, Morgan Stanley says
Investors aren’t appreciating the full scope of the ambition behind SpaceX’s decision to build a $100 billion spaceport…
SpaceX to develop Starship launch site in Louisiana
SALT LAKE CITY — SpaceX announced plans Aug. 25 to build a massive new spaceport for its Starship…