Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and...
Space and astronomy news
Beyond Earth, the general scientific consensus is that the best place to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life is Mars....
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can...
In the coming generations, humanity’s presence in space is expected to grow considerably. With everything from space tourism, the commercialization...
A secret coded message was hidden on the gigantic parachute used to land the Perseverance rover safely on the surface...
In 1964 two Aerobee suborbital rockets were launched with the goal of mapping x-ray sources in the sky. Each rocket...
The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has done it again. The imaging team was able to capture the...
You have to be careful what you say to people. When NASA or someone else says that the Perseverance rover...
The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) is a different kind of radio telescope. Although radio light has the longest wavelengths and lowest...
NASA’s Perseverance rover is practically bristling with cameras. And those cameras were busy during the rover’s breathtaking descent to the...
If the Roman Empire had been able to launch a satellite in a relatively high Low Earth Orbit – say...
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Brian Koberlein (BrianKoberlein.com / @BrianKoberlein) Sondy Springmann (@sondy) Michael Rodruck (@michaelrodruck) Tonight we...