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In this week's QA, I answer why space telescopes aren't a waste of taxpayer resources, if ground-based space telescopes will…

NASA has pushed back the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis because of Tropical Storm Ernesto, currently threatening the East…

In this week's questions show, I explain how astronomers know what the Milky Way looks like, what would happen in…

The Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world with traditional…

Although black holes can’t be seen directly, they’re relatively easy to find. Matter spiraling into a black hole becomes superheated,…

STS-115 is an ambitious mission that returns the focus of human spaceflight to building the International Space Station, bringing new…

In this week's penultimate episode of Open Space before our summer hiatus, I give tips and tricks on seeing Jupiter,…

In this week's live QA episode, I tackled questions about the reality of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024,…

Here's my interview on Space Junk about the Fermi Paradox: https://anchor.fm/spacejunk/episodes/The-Fermi-Paradox-and-The-Great-Filter-w-Fraser-Cain-e44uff 00:29 Are rings only limited to gas giants? 02:30…

Auroras appear near to the poles when material from the Sun interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field. Now ESA’s Cluster…