Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV
Credit: NASA Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire…
How much better is the Canon EOS R6 III than previous models for astrophotography?
In a rare first for me, I actually used autofocus for this entire astrophotography shoot. If I’m being honest? I prefer it when shooting astro with a mirrorless camera. Why?…
The First Confirmed Exo-satellite Challenges Our Definitions of Planets and Moons
What do you call a Jupiter-like object that orbits the brown dwarf companion of a star? Is it a planet, a moon, or something new?
NASA’s retired astronauts are hitting the road to get young people to vote: ‘one small step for you, and one giant leap for our country.’
LOS ANGELES — Standing in the shadow of the space shuttle Endeavour, a group of retired NASA astronauts announced their plan to travel the country visiting colleges to try to…
Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 4: Vindication
The collapsing stars Eddington swore couldn’t exist turned out to be everywhere, and half a century later the world handed Chandrasekhar his Nobel. How the 1.4 solar mass limit became…
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
NASA/Michael DeMocker Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a…
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN mission. NASA/GSFC…
The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
Galaxies attract cold gas from the intergalactic medium and turn it into stars. But the JWST has found galaxies that aren’t forming stars in the early Universe, long before they…
Will Bruey on rethinking the role of pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit
In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with Varda CEO Will Bruey at the Ascend conference. They discuss how Varda hopes to play a role bridging medicine and low Earth orbit…
Probing the Universe’s Missing Matter With Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
Astronomers aren’t certain where Fast Radio Bursts come from. But they still have utility. They can use them to find the Universe’s “missing matter.”