Astronomers Find Earth-Like Planet Just One Star Away
Proxima b might be able to support life.
Proxima b might be able to support life.
Japan's space agency, JAXA, lost contact with Hitomi in late March.
From an engineering standpoint, Juno's July 4 arrival at Jupiter is fitting, as the endeavor is a sort of declaration of independence from the required use of nuclear power in missions to outer planets.
After a five-year journey, Juno will be ensnared by Jupiter's gravity and orbit the planet 33 times, then plunge beneath the clouds and disintegrate.
Astronomers say rapid star birth is using up more cosmic debris than ever before.
“One of the major threats to intelligent life in our universe," said Stephen Hawking, "is a high probability of an asteroid colliding with inhabitable planets.”
The moon was lovely last night, wasn't it?
Some of Sir Isaac Newton's achievements are readily filed under G for genius; others simply reveal his complex and all-too-human personality.
In 2017, the "path of totality" of a solar eclipse will run exclusively—and entirely—across U.S. soil for the first time since the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence.
Its rings will appear just about as wide as is possible when seen from our pale blue dot.
Early Sunday morning, Mars will be as close to Earth as it's been in years, and will be nearly as bright as Jupiter.
It's not often that you can tilt your neck a mere 15 degrees and learn something new, so here is your big chance.
The fragment makes mention of the time of night as well as the position of the Moon and the Pleiades.
But please: Do not stare at the Sun.
All night skies are not created equal.
If conditions are good, you might see 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
We may release the (submarine into) Kraken, a liquid hydrocarbon sea on Titan, sometime in the 2040s. How cool is that?
“This is a body different than any we’ve examined thus far.”
Here are five missions that NASA is presently evaluating. At least one of them will eventually visit other worlds.
Yesterday at the 47th Lunar and Planetary Science conference in The Woodlands, Texas, members of the New Horizons team announced their latest findings about Pluto and its moons.
Learn about the "beautiful mystery" of fireball season, which peaks in the weeks around the vernal equinox.
TX68 appeared to have a four in 1 billion chance of hitting Earth. That may sound like a long shot, but the odds were four times higher than the threshold NASA has set for potentially hazardous objects.
Tune in online! The total solar eclipse will occur on March 8 from 8:38 to 8:42 p.m EST.
With even a modest telescope, you might be able to make out Jupiter's bands of brown, tan, and white.