Europe is Sending a Drill to the Moon to Search for Water

The Moon has been a source of interest of late largely due to the focus on…

The Surprising Source of Radiation Coming From Black Holes

Black holes are famous for sucking in everything that crosses their event horizons, including light. So,…

Asking the Big Question: Where Did Life Originate?

Where on Earth did life originate, and where else could it occur? A comprehensive answer is…

There Was a Strange Sound Coming From Starliner. It Was Caused by a Speaker in the Capsule

As part of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), NASA contracted with commercial space partners to develop…

This Ancient Galaxy Merger Will Produce a very Luminous Quasar

In the contemporary Universe, massive galaxies are plentiful. But the Universe wasn’t always like this. Astronomers…

Catch a Fall Feast of Lunar Occultations in September

September offers a number of fascinating lunar occultation events worldwide. Chances are, there’s one near you…

A Global Color Map of Mars, Courtesy of China’s Tianwen-1 Mission

In July 2020, China’s Tianwen-1 mission arrived in orbit around Mars, consisting of six robotic elements:…

Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect Primordial Black Holes Speeding Through the Solar System

Cosmologists have long hypothesized that the conditions of the early universe could have caused the formation…

Estimating the Basic Settings of the Universe

The Standard Model describes how the Universe has evolved at large scale. There are six numbers…

By Watching the Sun, Astronomers are Learning More about Exoplanets

Watching the Olympics recently and the amazing effort of the hammer throwers was a wonderful demonstration…