The Mars Exploration Rover mission sent two identical rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to opposite sides of Mars in January 2004.…
TLDR Table of Contents What makes a star’s planets habitable? A planet counts as potentially habitable when it orbits inside…
Utah has one full-scale public planetarium, one tiny campus dome that hosts free evening shows, and one mobile dome that…
Denmark has one astronaut who has flown: Andreas Mogensen. He was the first Dane in space in 2015, and in…
Most articles about Chinese astronomy are really articles about instruments, dynasties, and star catalogues — the field, not the people…
TLDR “Stars named after animals” is really three different questions people mash together. Individual stars have animal nicknames (Sirius is…
TLDR May has quietly produced one of the densest clusters of astronaut birthdays on the calendar — Sally Ride, Scott…
TLDR Kansas has exactly three public planetariums: the Justice Planetarium inside the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, the L. Russell Kelce Planetarium…
On July 20, 1976, a three-legged robot with a robotic arm and a set of miniature chemistry ovens touched down…
TLDR: Carbon stars are dying red giants that have belched so much soot-forming carbon into their own atmospheres that it…