astronomy

Gizmodo has published a roundup of what is happening in the world of space exploration next year, and there's plenty afoot. https://gizmodo.com/the-space-news-we-ll-be-watching-in-2021-1845842911?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=io9 A few...

We had a close encounter with a non-insignificant space rock this week. It came as a bit of a surprise, being discovered only a short time before it whizzed by. In the end, it was no threat. But had it been on a collision course with Earth and had it hit a city, the scientist interviewed for the...

That, my friends, is a black hole. A multinational team of physicists and astronomers have taken our first direct (well, as direct as possible) image of a black hole. Basically, the black hole itself is invisible due to being basically just a huge distortion in space-time that sucks in all the...

In the 1950s, it was rare for women to be accepted in the sciences, let alone be given executive positions at new government agencies. Dr. Nancy Roman beat that system, becoming NASA's first chief of astronomy in 1959. Among the projects that she had a hand in was the Hubble Space Telescope, one...

No, not the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. He's been dead for centuries. NASA announced today that the Kepler space telescope, named for Johannes, is no longer operational after nearly a decade due to using up its fuel. It lasted far longer than planned, completing not one, but two...