The bright “star” shining in the east in the evening right now is Jupiter. getty Go outside any time after sunset tonight, and you will not fail to notice a bright “star” shining above the eastern horizon. It seems unusually bright and dominates that half of the sky. There is no other bright light to …
NASA will exchange no messages with its fleet of Mars rovers and orbiters because of the red … [+] planet’s solar conjunction. Getty Space agencies in the U.S., Europe and China have temprarily lost contact with a vast fleet of spacecraft at Mars. That includes three rovers, one helicopter and seven orbiters. The cause is …
NASA’s Cassini mission orbited Saturn from 2004 through 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute New insights about Saturn’s famous ring pattern have come from data collected during solar eclipses at the sixth planet from the sun. Published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a new paper crunches archive data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, …
Did comets deliver the building blocks of life to Earth? If so, could they done so to other planets … [+] in the galaxy? getty A new study has revealed a way that comets and asteroids may spread the essentials for life around the galaxy. A longstanding theory exists has all of Earth’s water being …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took this natural-color portrait on July 19, 2013, which is the first … [+] image to show Saturn, its moons and rings, plus Earth, Venus and Mars, all together. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI Saturn’s rings will disappear in 2025. That’s what we’re being told by multiple articles online in what is fast becoming a viral …
An occultation of Venus is seen from L’Aquila, Italy, on November 9, 2023. (Photo by Lorenzo Di … [+] Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Venus disappeared behind a slim crescent moon this morning, with sky-watchers and photographers posting images across social media of the night sky’s two brightest objects. The rare sight—technically …
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ultraviolet view of Jupiter. NASA, ESA, and M. Wong (University of California – Berkeley); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) NASA has just published a new image of the giant planet, Jupiter to coincide with its annual opposition this week. However, there is something extraordinary about this photo—taken …
An artistic illustration shows Theia impacting the proto-Earth. Artwork by Hernan Canellas/image courtesy of ASU Deep inside our planet are two giant “blobs,” the leftovers of an ancient world that collided with Earth. The blobs, which are in the mantle near the center of the Earth beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, have been known …
This enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s … [+] Juno spacecraft during the mission’s June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon on Juno’s 34th pass close to Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kalleheikki Kannisto © CC BY New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft suggests that there are mineral salts …
Scientist and astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt stands next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the … [+] Apollo 17 mission at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in this photograph from Dec. 13, 1972. Rock samples collected during the Apollo missions provided evidence that the Moon resulted from an object crashing into Earth in the early …