Hubble’s New Image of a Star Factory in the Small Magellanic Cloud

NGC346 is a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Clouds with an estimated 2,500 stars.…

There’s a Type 1a Supernova in the Making, Just 150 Light-Years Away

A Type 1a supernova represents one of the most powerful and consistent explosions in our universe.…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Hit Earth, But There May Be a Lunar Light Show

Although astronomers have ruled out a smash-up between Earth and an asteroid known as 2024 YR4…

Terraforming Mars Will Require Hitting It With Mulitple Asteroids

By Andy Tomaswick April 7, 2025 Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts…

Andromeda’s Black Hole is Winking at Us

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way…

20 Years of Uranus Observations by Hubble Show a Changing Planet

In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft made a flyby of Uranus. It gave us the first…

A New Graduate Project Plans to Make Martian Water Drinkable

Mars exploration technology has seen a lot of recent successes. MOXIE successfully made oxygen from the…

Perseverance Watched a Dust Devil Eat Another

NASA’s Perseverance was scanning the rim of Jezero Crater when it spotted a Martian dust devil…

Want to Know How to Survive in Space? Ask a Tardigrade

The 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which took place from March 10–14 in The Woodlands,…

Artemis ESM’s Could be Repurposed for Future Missions

In the coming years, NASA will send astronauts to the Moon for the first time since…