Building a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes
Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Dae Wook Kim, University of Arizona
When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae...
Why we need to get back to Venus
Why we need to get back to Venus
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First Drive
Republished from article on JPL.NASA.gov
NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019,...
Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky
Republished from an article on JPL.NASA.gov - 11/26/2019
Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so, something unpredictable happens: A series of...
SpaceX Dragon Heads to Space Station with NASA Science, Cargo
Article Originally Published at NASA.gov 12/05/19
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 12:29 p.m....
NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
Daniel Apai, University of Arizona and Benjamin Rackham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA's TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to...
The First Pinpoint Landing on the Moon
Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona
When Apollo...
The Goblin Makes an Appearance
The 40,000 year orbit of a recently discovered dwarf planet, nicknamed “The Goblin” adds to growing circumstantial evidence of a yet unseen giant planet...
Hypervelocity Stars – passing through the galaxy
Astronomers have recently discovered a larger than expected number of hypervelocity stars passing through our galaxy. A few of these stars are...
The Lost-and-Found Asteroid
An asteroid traveling at over 28,000 miles per hour passed by the earth on May the 15th, 2018. Not an unusual occurrence at all,...
