April marks the end of the ‘meteor shower draught’ with the Lyrids. Despite the month’s popularity for this famous meteor shower, there are a few more exciting astronomical events in April 2021. Let’s see what April has planned for us … Read More
NASA’s Perseverance rover is slowly getting ready to deploy the first helicopter on Mars even as it takes a look back at the litter it’s dropping on the Red Planet. The rover, which was sterilized on Earth to prevent contaminating Mars with … Read More
The Starship SN11 prototype joined SpaceX’s previous three prototypes in rocket heaven on Tuesday. The uncrewed launch of SN11, Elon Musk’s next-generation rocket, took place on Tuesday at 8 a.m. local time (6 a.m. PT) from the Starship development facility in … Read More
Asteroid 99942 Apophis has been a serious reminder for the past 17 years that there are plenty of space rocks out there ready to hit the Earth and wipe out a significant portion of our planet. Although there are still … Read More
A star in the constellation Cassiopeia has just gone nova, according to news in The Astronomer’s Telegram, and the glow can still be seen in the night sky. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and have access to a … Read More
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, revealed a new view of the massive object at the center of the M87 galaxy: a picture of its polarized light. This is the first … Read More