Starwatch: Identifying the Scorpion, mythical adversary of Orion | Astronomy
This week we will take the opportunity to identify Scorpius, the Scorpion, one of the famous zodiacal constellations.…
See The Moon Meet Two Of Summer’s Brightest Stars: Night Sky This Week
Topline This week is perfect for letting the moon give you a tour of some of the night…
World’s second most visited country eyes 500,000 visitors for rare astronomical event next month
As a child, Enrique Bordallo would gaze in awe at the starry night sky in rural Spain. Next…
Monday briefing: 50 years after Viking landed on Mars, did Nasa overlook evidence of life? | Science
Good morning. As Andy Burnham’s search for intelligent life to appoint to cabinet continues (more on that from…
The Case of the Sun’s Missing Silver
There is something quietly reassuring about a scientific mystery that gets solved not by a dramatic new discovery,…
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater – CTV News
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater CTV NewsQuebecer discovers 390-million-year-old crater Yahoo News CanadaGiant…
Shaping the Emerald City – NASA Science
Seattle, Washington—sometimes known as the “Emerald City”—was glimmering in the morning sunlight when an astronaut aboard the International…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues
View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed through the…