Your night sky guide for 2020
Eclipses, oppositions, spectacular conjunctions and a close encounter between Venus and the Pleiades await stargazers this year.
NASA tests under-ice robot in Antarctica
The craft is a forerunner of the kind of robot that might one day explore underneath the ice crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Neutron star crash likely formed a new black hole
A collision between two neutron stars probably resulted in the formation a black hole, according to gravitational wave data.
Partial solar eclipse on December 26
Residents of Darwin and other places in the northern half of Australia will be treated to a partial solar eclipse on December 26.
Mars 2020’s protective cocoon nears completion
The structure will protect NASA’s next Mars rover from temperatures as high as 2,100°C during entry into the planet’s atmosphere.
Galaxies that go bump in the night
Galaxies NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, around 160 million light-years from Earth, are caught in a slow motion collision.
