SpaceX launches $214M NASA satellite to study black holes

NASA's Luna-H probe will one day crash on the moon. In the sci-fi video game Destiny you can find wreckage of this real world craft, because Principal Investigator Craig Hardgrove is also a Destiny advisor. In real life, the Luna-H nameplate sneaks in a symbol from another video game series: Halo.

How SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket might unlock the solar system—and beyond

Astronomer here! I have an article in the December issue of Astronomy magazine about my research! “How do black holes swallow stars?”