China lands a rover on Mars

Last week China landed a rover on Mars. Named Zhurong, it landed in the northern Utopia Planitia region and will … More

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 … More

On Friday, the Ingenuity helicopter took its fifth flight on Mars. For the first time it landed in a new … More

It’s not going to hit you (probably), but a Chinese Long March 5B rocket booster is going to crash somewhere … More

A new paper by Qin Han and Xiang-Dong Li of Nanjing University, due to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, … More

See that cluster of bright objects in the above image? Those are fragments of a comet called C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) … More

NASA has released this beautiful close up of the rim of a Martian impact crater, taken by the HiRISE camera … More

The European Southern Observatory has observed the way a star’s orbit changes as it circles the supermassive black hole at … More