In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft to probe the outer reaches of our solar system. The space agency was still in its infancy then. But with the triumph of the Apollo Moon landings just ...
After passing south of Mars late on the 19th, Mercury passes 0.5° south of Saturn at 4 A.M. EDT this morning. Mars will later pass 1.3° north of Saturn at 2 P.M. EDT. This trio of planets congregates ...
Trained as a Soviet Air Force pilot from the age of 15 and a 1959 graduate of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 in 1964 – the first multi-human-passenger space ...
The young cluster Pismis 24 lies at the heart of the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Scorpius. The brilliant stars rank among the hottest and most massive in our galaxy. Tens of thousands of background ...
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; ESA/XMM-Newton; Optical HST: NASA/ESA/STScI; Optical Ground: Deep Space Remote observatories/B. Fera and S. Mandel; ESO/VLT As odd couples go, it’s tough to beat the ...
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere aren’t just affecting climate on Earth — they could also make weather in space more dramatic, says new research. A team led by scientists from the ...
Our attention is back on Jupiter in the west this evening, though, as Ganymede finally reaches the planet’s eastern limb and begins a transit overnight. First, though, Io is completing another transit ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, coming within 600 miles (920 kilometers) of the object located in the inner region of the asteroid belt between Mars ...
When Duke and Young hit the regolith, it marked the first time that astronauts had set foot in the rugged lunar highlands. Apollo 16’s landing site was Descartes, a region some 7,400 feet (2,250 ...
After 25 years of planning, six years of data collection, and six more years of analysis, scientists have published a portion of the final results of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) — the largest, most ...
Exciting planetary action takes place this month. Venus and Uranus vie for attention and lie close to each other in late April. Jupiter offers a lot to observe through a telescope, particularly events ...
Karen Meech doesn’t spend a lot of time digging through Earth’s rocks. An astronomer by trade, she is usually behind the telescope, investigating comets and looking for hints about how Earth got its ...
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