Look Up Tonight! The Leonid Meteor Shower Will Blaze Across the Sky
The celestial show occurs every November.
The celestial show occurs every November.
While you were trick or treating, Cassini was sending to Earth images from the October 28 flyby of the Saturn moon Enceladus.
Its mission: To make its deepest dive yet through the icy geysers (or “plumes”) of Enceladus’ south pole.
This is the first time oxygen has been discovered in a cometary coma.
Astronomers around the world marveled at the brilliance of the “guest star.”
No one has ever seen a star behave this way before.
It's salty and it's flowing right now, they say.
The darkened terrestrial disk will be ringed by every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all at once.
Oohing and aahing are optional but recommended.
When the famed astrophysicist pointed out an error in the Oscar-winning blockbuster, Cameron—ever the perfectionist—took action.
No, the Sun isn't actually on fire. Here are a few more myths about space that are ready for debunking.
When she first finished her revolutionary thesis, Payne was told that the results were "clearly impossible."
Some 100 meteors an hour will blaze across the sky tomorrow night. It's going to be the best show in five years.
A recent study published in Nature Geoscience details the presence of a potential “continental crust” on Mars.
Some initial conclusions about Pluto and Charon, its largest moon.
On July 14, the New Horizons probe will be closer to Pluto than New York City is to Hong Kong.
They're gliding across the sky towards each other all month long.
The astronauts on NASA’s Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 paved the way for a pivotal moment in human history. But in the process, they introduced an entirely new kind of space exploration mystery.
On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Telescope hitched a ride aboard the space shuttle Discovery and began its ascent into low-earth orbit, where it has remained ever since.
When a presidential candidate says adults in America are suffering from a "fun deficit," you know it's time to take the issue seriously. The following 20 camps are alternative ways to spend your allotted vacation time.
It wasn't always this way...but it has been for a super-long time.
"There's a little black spot on the sun today," -The Police, possibly referring to the Transit of Venus (well, actually, a breakup).