Kinda related stories, in that one is about getting chunks of an asteroid on purpose, and the other is hoping we don’t get any by accident
Psyche mission launches Thursday, and the Moon eats (most of) the Sun on Saturday
Sometimes, when writing about a familiar object, I just need to find the right angle
Yet another cosmic nugget found in that incredible JWST Orion Nebula image. So yay, bonus astronomy!
OK, yeah, but c’mon, take a look and tell me this headline is over the top
If I belched out gas half a light-year long I doubt it would be so pretty
A new experiment shows that it falls down. But wow, Geordi will be ticked at you.
A distant moon keeps looking better and better for life
Scientists and engineers successfully retrieve samples of the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx mission
Stars are colorful, and this one weird trick shows how to photograph it
These first stars were whoppers, and when they blew up they did so… differently.
Another milestone reached, stuff I wrote for a wonderful magazine, and NASA snaps a shot of an Indian spacecraft sitting on the lunar surface.