2 meteor showers peak on the same night this week — how to get the best views, despite a near-full moon
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Dennis Mammana: Before Dawn, Mars and Mercury Put on a Rare Show | Outdoors
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be telling you about the annual Perseid meteor shower. It should be…
Scientists may have found the first moon beyond our solar system
Scientists may have found the first moon beyond our Solar System. Unlike every moon we know, this giant…
See A Full ‘Buck Moon’ And ‘Shooting Stars:’ The Night Sky This Week
Topline July closes with two of the celestial highlights of summer — the rise of the full Buck…
The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago
SCIENCE So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA? This week marks 15 years since…
Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Space
Where are the arts and humanities in current debates about space research? The physicist Laura Grego tells us…
The software that landed men on the Moon was not loaded onto the Apollo Guidance Computer so much as woven into it, with women at a Raytheon plant threading wire through or around thousands of tiny magnetic rings by hand, one pass for a one and one miss for a zero, until the whole program was a physical textile
The software that guided Apollo 11 towards the Moon did not reach its computer as an electronic download.…
Montgomery County astronaut returns to Earth after 8 months in space
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Sunday, landing aboard a Soyuz capsule…
New Research Shows How Clouds Shape the Interiors of sub-Neptunes
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 6,324 exoplanets in 4,738 star systems, with tens of thousands…
A Soviet probe built in 1972 to land on Venus returned to Earth on 10 May 2025, and the same titanium shell meant to survive the hottest planet may have carried it intact through re-entry
A Soviet capsule designed to descend through the atmosphere of Venus finally re-entered an atmosphere on 10 May…
Opportunity was built for a ninety-day mission and a target of six hundred metres, and it ran for fourteen and a half years and forty-five kilometres, until a planet-wide dust storm in 2018 blotted out the sun over Perseverance Valley and its final transmission was a reading of falling power and darkening sky
Opportunity reached Mars with a requirement to survive 90 Martian days and drive at least 600 metres. When…
UCF Researchers Are Developing Tools to Help Find Habitable Planets
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the…