Rare Encounters Between Cosmic Heavyweights
An international collaboration of astronomers has used the combined abilities of the Subaru Telescope, Keck Observatory, and Gemini Observatory to search out and find three different binary supermassive black hole quasars.
China launches fifth Gaofen-9 series Earth observation satellite
On August 23rd at 02:27 UTC, a Long March 2D rocket launched from pad 603 at SLS-2 of the Jiuquan Space Center in northern China, which is the nation’s most active spaceport.
Comet NEOWISE — Surviving the Sun
We bring you new images of Comet NEOWISE, which continues to generate research and press releases.
Technology Ready to Explore Subsurface Oceans on Ganymede
Last week, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) announced the completion of one of their instruments for JUICE, the Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation instrument.
Large Shift on Europa Was Last Event to Fracture Its Surface
New research published in the Geophysical Research Letters has found that Europa’s poles have shifted, and the cracks show that the icy surface has reoriented by 70 degrees.
Hayabusa2 Re-entry Capsule Approved to Land in Australia
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which visited asteroid Ryugu from June 2018 to November 2019, is on its way home with samples.
Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth in Closest Flyby on Record
IMAGE: This is the first image of Asteroid 2020 QG, captured by Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) after the asteroid’s closest approach to Earth at a distance of 1,830 miles above the planet’s surface. The asteroid shows up as a streak because it is closer...
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences theorizes that cosmic rays from supernovae may be responsible for at least one mass extinction event.
100 Cool Worlds Found Near the Sun
A new paper in The Astrophysical Journal details the discovery of almost 100 cool worlds known as brown dwarfs, which were found with the help of a huge group of citizen scientists.
Last in current line of Japan’s HTV cargo ships departs space station
Japan’s last HTV cargo vessel was set loose from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday.
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