X-Ray Telescope Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday With Cosmic Fireworks
In celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday, NASA has unveiled four new images from its…
Science news this week: James Webb telescope finds a never-before-seen substance, China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ grows faster than natural trees, and a Medici murder mystery is solved
This week’s science news was all about goings on in space, with reports that the James Webb Space…
In 1995, astronomers pointed Hubble at a patch of sky so dark it looked empty and held it there for ten days. The image that came back contained roughly 3,000 galaxies — not stars, but galaxies — many holding billions of stars of their own.
In December 1995, Hubble did something that sounded almost like a misuse of a great telescope. It stared…
Mars Meets Uranus Before Dawn On July 4 In Closest Pairing Until 2053
Topline A rare dawn conjunction on Saturday, July 4, brings fourth planet Mars and seventh planet Uranus unusually…
A Strawberry Moon is lighting up NZ skies tonight – here’s what it means
If you’ve been hearing about a Strawberry Moon rising in the sky this week and wondering what that…
Study explains how asteroids may have sparked life on Earth | NASA spots peanut-shaped asteroid in space | Inshorts – Inshorts
Study explains how asteroids may have sparked life on Earth | NASA spots peanut-shaped asteroid in space |…
Here’s where and when to look for Friday’s Aurora Australis
Winter’s run of celestial spectacles isn’t over just yet. A fresh solar storm is forecast to reach Earth…
Videos: A Lunar Mars Rover, Floating Robots, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.…
We think of astronauts as floating in zero gravity, but the International Space Station is still deep inside Earth’s pull, where gravity is nearly 90% as strong as it is on the ground. What looks like weightlessness is really the station and its crew falling around the planet at about 28,000 kilometres per hour.
We tend to picture astronauts drifting weightlessly in “zero gravity,” as if the pull of the Earth simply…
The Sky Today on Friday, July 3: Glimpse the Milky Way’s center
Back to Article List The center of the Milky Way stands above the southern horizon late at night…
Amendment 61: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science Final Close Date Deferred
A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science (RRNES) solicits proposals that advance the goals and objectives…
Google Ventures makes surprise $30 million SpaceX-era bet
The next major space company might not be building rockets It may not be launching satellites into space,…