Last week China landed a rover on Mars. Named Zhurong, it landed in the northern Utopia Planitia region and will…
New all-sky map shows the trail left by the Large Magellanic Cloud
Astronomers recently released the above map of the Milky Way’s furthest reaches — the galactic halo. The band across the…
Ingenuity Mars helicopter moves to a new location
On Friday, the Ingenuity helicopter took its fifth flight on Mars. For the first time it landed in a new…
Chinese rocket booster to crash somewhere this weekend
It’s not going to hit you (probably), but a Chinese Long March 5B rocket booster is going to crash somewhere…
Giant Radio Pulses: Now Available in X-Rays
Six and a half thousand light years away is the dense remnant of a supernova. It’s the size of a…
A Black Hole Feeding on an Ageing Star Powers a Mysterious Microquasar
A new paper by Qin Han and Xiang-Dong Li of Nanjing University, due to be published in the Astrophysical Journal,…
Comets Splitting into Comets, Splitting into Comets…
See that cluster of bright objects in the above image? Those are fragments of a comet called C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)…
The Lives of Long Lasting Lineae
NASA has released this beautiful close up of the rim of a Martian impact crater, taken by the HiRISE camera…
ESO Sees a Star’s Orbit Precess Around a Supermassive Black Hole
The European Southern Observatory has observed the way a star’s orbit changes as it circles the supermassive black hole at…
Hayabusa2 is coming home
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed its mission at the asteroid Ryugu and is now on its way home. It’s…
