China’s Yutu-2 Lunar Rover Looks Back at Lander Pal in Glorious New Panorama
China’s Yutu-2 rover has returned a photograph from the Moon’s “dark side,” giving a peek at its three-year trip. The China National Space Administration’s outreach…
Astronomy
A Rocket Is Going To Crash into the Moon – The Accidental Experiment Will Shed Light on the Physics of Impacts in Space
A lonely, discarded rocket booster will slam onto the Moon’s surface at approximately 6,000 mph on March 4, 2022. After the dust settles, NASA’s Lunar…
Supermassive Black Holes Dance Together Inside a Quasar
The presence of two supermassive black holes on the verge of merging explains the frequent brightening and dimming of a quasar 9 billion light-years away.…
Closest Extra-Galactic Fast Radio Burst Observed Might Also Be the Fastest
Radio astronomers have discovered the nearest repeated fast radio burst (FRB), a mysterious and fleeting emission of radio waves whose origin remains a mystery. Galaxy…
Liquid Rubies and Sapphires Might Be Raining On the Night-Side of This Hellish Exoplanet
WASP-121b is a hot Jupiter, a gas giant that orbits its star so close that it isn’t spherical and has a temperature in the thousands…
China Claims Rocket That Will Slam into the Moon Next Week Is Not Theirs
A rocket’s upper stage will collide with the Moon next week. That is undeniable. The rest of the story’s details are less certain. The space…
First-Ever Quadruple Asteroid System Discovered
The asteroid 130 Elektra has three moons, rather than the two originally thought, making it the first quadruple asteroid system ever discovered. To put it…
Floating Mystery Turds Interrupted The Apollo 10 Mission… Twice
No one can hear you scream in space, but they can make a transcript of your entire journey owing to the Apollo 10 onboard comms.…
New Type of Star Covered In Carbon and Oxygen Discovered By Astronomers
A new form of star has been identified by astronomers that is completely perplexing. Instead of hydrogen and helium, the stars’ surfaces are covered in…
Beautiful Images Show Planets Starting to Form
Hundreds of light-years away, an international team of astronomers has captured some extremely rare photos of planetary systems forming. While photos of “protoplanetary disks” have…
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