Astronomy Cast: Ep. 759: The Commercial Space Program
Jun 16, 2025 Astronomy Cast Ep. 759: The Commercial Space Program By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jun 9, 2025. Humanity has turned its focus back …
All space rocks great and small
A meteorite older than Earth flew through a roof last month. On July 27, a meteorite survived its trip through the atmosphere and smashed through the roof of a house in McDonough, …
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 29 – September 7
Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury continue at dawn. The evening Moon meets Saturn while Fomalhaut looks on. Saturn’s own biggest moon casts its shadow onto the planet, for one of the …
Astronomers discover a ‘forbidden’ pulsar fleeing a supernova in a seemingly empty region of the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive stellar supernova explosion. What makes this system even more spectacular is the fact …
Did Pluto Steal Charon with a “Kiss” ? The Surprising Story
A team from the University of Arizona has made a startling new discovery about the formation of Pluto and its moon. Published in Nature Geoscience, the study presents a bold …
What to Look For This Summer
Jun 23, 2025 Astronomy Cast Ep. 760: What to Look For This Summer By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Jun 16, 2025. It’s almost time for …
China eyes Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus in the…
Tianwen-2 launched in late May this year to conduct an asteroid sample return mission and then head to a main-belt comet. Further confirmed missions include Tianwen-3, the world’s first Mars sample …
Jupiter-bound Probe Flies By Venus
The European spacecraft en route to Jupiter, named JUICE, completed its only flyby of the planet Venus The post Jupiter-bound Probe Flies By Venus appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Trump moves US Space Command to Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’
President Donald Trump just announced that U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. In an Oval Office press conference on Tuesday (Sept. 2), Trump stated that …
The World’s Oldest Star Catalog, Hidden in China for Over Two Millennia, Is Shaking Up Astronomy’s Origins
The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories (NAO) to be the oldest surviving star catalog …