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China’s Zhurong Mars Rover Takes a Drive on the Red Planet

China has become the first country after the United States to successfully land a rover on Mars. On May 14, 2021, China’s Zhurong rover rolled from its platform onto the red sand, with this historical …

Why Did The Water On Mars Disappear?

James Miller

The red planet has been an object of fascination to us for thousands of years. Going from a god of war to a potential alien world with alien people and large canals to our current …

Oumuamua, Alien Visitors and Occam’s Razor

James Miller

Asteroids are a common objects in our solar system. Most of them originate from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, followed by the ones that come from the distant Oort cloud that encircles us …

Is a Doomsday Asteroid Heading Towards Earth?

James Miller

Last year was a tough one, loaded with natural and man-made disasters to the point where many people jokingly predicted a giant asteroid hitting Earth for December 2020. Now that we have safely passed into …

100m Liquid Telescope To Be Placed On The Moon

James Miller

An international team of astronomers want to build a 100 meter in diameter telescope on the Moon. No this is not the plot of some sci-fi movie, it is very much something that could happen …

Water Discovered on Sunlit Surface of the Moon

James Miller

NASA’s flying SOFIA telescope has confirmed the presence of water on the Moon’s sunlit surface. This proves that water is not just present in the shadowy craters, but could be all over the lunar surface. …

Dwarf Planet Ceres Found to Be an Ocean World

James Miller

Ceres is the Asteroid belt’s largest object, making up around one third of the total mass or the entire belt. This dwarf planet is the largest remnant of what could have been a planet, had …

Black Neutron Star Discovered by LIGO

James Miller

Astronomy is very much a work in progress and our understanding of it is still lacking. Several topics in astronomy are well understood, others are approximated by complex models and simulations. Up to very recently …

Astronomers Verify Proxima Centauri Hosts Earth-Sized Planet

James Miller

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own Sun, and for the last 4 years there have been several hints pointing to an exoplanet orbiting it. Not just any planet, an Earth like planet. …

Chinese Tianwen-1 Mars Mission On Track For Its July Launch

James Miller

On April 24th, China has revealed the name and logo of its first independent interplanetary mission. This was done in honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite; the DFH-1 …