Why are astronomers so sure that the recent interstellar comet came from outside the solar system? Which is going to be the most exciting telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope or the Square Kilometer Array?
What’s inside a neutron star? What strange states of matter do we encounter? And what mysteries will we find deep in the core?
NASA’s newly launched SphereX mission is up & operational and has completed its initial checkout and “first light”. Everything looks good!
Today’s Travelers in the Night tell stories about 2006 HZ51 and 2024 BR4
Join ASTROMAN as we dive into what solar maximum really means and how you can chase these lights under dark skies.
After much “will it / won’t it” over the last few weeks in the wake of increased (and then decreased) seismic activity, an eruption in Iceland finally started with a brand new fissure near Fagradalsfjall
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Affordable Wide-Field with Brian Ventrudo. In this episode we talk with a returning guest about getting the most out of affordable wide-field telescopes and what can be seen with them.
We’ve been so busy wondering how we’ll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we’ll do if we actually encounter them. How does an alien discovery get communicated to the media?
Deep in the cosmos, NASA’s TESS has discovered four new worlds orbiting a pair of young stars that provides a glimpse of planetary evolution.
There are stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. But very little evidence of anything in between. Where are all the intermediate-mass black holes that should be the building blocks of the biggest ones?