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InSight’s First Images From Mars!
2018-11-28 17:00
NASA’s InSight spacecraft has sent back its first images after successfully landing on Mars on November 26. The first one shows a view of the landscape while the lens cover was still… Read More
2018-11-14 01:21
This is just a note about some changes I’m making with the blog. I am now doing a lot more freelance writing separate from Planetaria, for both EarthSky and AmericaSpace, which is taki… Read More
New Dwarf Planet Nicknamed The Goblin
2018-10-13 22:31
Astronomers have found a goblin in the far reaches of the outer Solar System. No, it’s not a mythical space-faring creature. The Goblin is the nickname given to a new dwarf planet in… Read More
Mercury’s Strange Chemistry Revealed
2018-10-04 23:06
Mercury, the smallest terrestrial (rocky) planet and closest to the Sun, is relatively close to Earth, yet there is much that we still don’t know about it. Next month, the joint ESA… Read More
What Is The Hypatia Catalog?
2018-09-15 00:03
As more and more exoplanets are discovered, with 3,779 confirmed so far plus 2,737 additional candidates, the focus is shifting from merely finding exoplanets to understanding them. To t… Read More
Asteroid Itokawa Gives Up Its Secrets
2018-09-12 23:55
Back in 2005, the first asteroid sample-return mission – Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft – reached its target, the asteroid Itokawa. In 2010, Hayabusa (Japanese for &l… Read More
Jupiter’s Growing Pains, Explained
2018-09-07 22:40
Jupiter is sometimes called the king of the planets in our Solar System, due to its enormous size. It has some 300 times Earth’s mass. Jupiter is thought to have become the largest… Read More
Astronomers See A Baby Planet Growing
2018-08-28 02:16
For the first time, astronomers have caught a baby planet in the process of growing. This isn’t just a newly developing planet, located in a gap in a star’s disk of prim… Read More
Water Worlds Are Likely Common
2018-08-25 22:52
When it comes to searching for evidence of alien life, the phrase follow the water is often quoted as a guiding principle. All life on Earth depends on water, so it makes sense to focus… Read More
Where To Look For Life On Titan
2018-08-08 22:48
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and ESA’s Huygens lander showed that Saturn’s large moon Titan mimics Earth in many ways. But Titan displays different kinds of chemistry… Read More
An Easier Way To Search For Life On Europa
2018-08-06 00:20
When it comes to the question of what places in the Solar System would be the best to search for alien life, Europa immediately comes to mind. This small moon of Jupiter seems to have ev… Read More
2018-08-03 02:16
Could there have been life on the Moon in the distant past? Our airless, mostly dry moon certainly isn’t the first place that comes to mind when it comes to searching for life else… Read More
Subsurface Lake Discovered On Mars?
2018-07-31 06:09
Water on Mars! Again! Doesn’t it seem like every year or two, we hear about some new water-related finding on the red planet? So far, the discoveries have more specifically been ab… Read More
Wow! New Volcano On Jupiter’s Moon Io
2018-07-29 23:08
When it comes to volcanoes, we naturally tend to think of big eruptions like the recent ones in Hawaii or Mount St. Helens in Washington state, best known for its major 1980 eruption. Ea… Read More
Young Star Caught Eating Its Planet
2018-07-27 02:18
Stars give birth to planets. That’s part of the natural order of things in our universe. But did you know that stars can also sometimes eat their planets? Usually, planets will per… Read More
Astronomers Find ‘ghost Dunes’ On Mars
2018-07-17 18:32
Mars is a desert planet, a lot like some deserts on Earth, but much colder. Also just like Earth, the Martian deserts have vast dunes, ranging from small sand ripples (technically not du… Read More
Life At Alpha Centauri? Maybe, NASA Says
2018-06-18 19:58
With the discovery of thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars, the search for life elsewhere has entered an exciting new phase. So far, most of these worlds have been found many lig… Read More
Io’s Fiery Volcanoes In Infrared
2018-04-11 22:46
All volcanoes, all the time – that’s what it’s like on Jupiter’s moon Io, which is volcanically active on pretty much a constant basis. These new images of the mo… Read More
2017-04-25 14:28
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Investing In Stocks & Bonds
2017-03-05 15:58
Before you invest in stocks & bonds, you need to define your objectives. You can have one goal or multiple goals. You should lay out your goals as precisely as possible. Your goal can be… Read More
Tips To Manage Your Daily Finance
2017-02-24 16:07
The modern economy is passing through a bad phase. Closure of business units, recession, inflation, etc have compounded the situation. As such, making a living has become really difficult. I… Read More
4 Simple Ways To Cut Your Monthly Expenses
2017-02-14 15:53
Every month you are throwing away money at things you don’t really need. In order to improve your finances, you need to cut down on your monthly expenses. Lucky for you, there are a nu… Read More
2017-02-11 16:01
Planning your retirement can seem like a daunting task to many people. It can be very disconcerting to have to think about growing older, but also, it can feel difficult because there is so… Read More

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