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While orbiting Venus, the ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, specifically the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer known as VIRTIS, captured the whirling gasses at the south pole. Other than glimpses from the 1970s missions of the Pioneer Venus and Mariner 10, details were not seen until 2006 with VIRTIS. [Learn more about the Venus vortex […]

This simulation shows the large-scale structure of the universe.Credit: Illustris Collaboration Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP ). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman  and RealSpace , and the YouTube series Space In Your Face . He contributed this article to […]

Orbital ATK’s uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 3, 2015.Credit: NASA TV The private Cygnus cargo spacecraft will have to wait a bit longer to make its highly anticipated return to orbit. The uncrewed Cygnus freighter , which […]

If you’re a regular night owl or an extreme early-bird sky gazer, then you’ll likely see two brilliant objects in the sky overnight tonight and early Friday (Dec. 4), weather permitting. The first celestial sight is the moon, which in its waning crescent phase appears 42-percent lit and will emerge from above the eastern horizon […]

Artist’s illustration of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.Credit: Courtesy TMT International Observatory Construction of a gigantic telescope in Hawaii has encountered yet another serious setback. The Hawaii Supreme Court has pulled the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) indefinitely, saying the state granted the permit without following proper procedures […]

The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*.Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al. The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy is coming into sharper focus. For the first time ever, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon — the […]

The Universe is Dying? Now What? December 3rd, 2015 What will happen when the universe ends? Read More » Relativity’s Legacy: Your Guide to Traveling the Galaxy in Only 20 Years October 19th, 2015 If you left Earth at near-light-speed, would you really want to come back? Read More » Why Magnetars Should Freak You […]

NASA has awarded nine projects to advance technologies in four satellite technology areas, including robotic in-space manufacturing and assembly of spacecraft and space structures.Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA awarded contracts and unfunded agreements Nov. 19 for 22 projects to advance space technologies that the agency believes are on the verge of significant advancement. NASA awarded […]

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An astronaut’s tales about a mouse that went to space are heading to the space station as part of Story Time From Space.Credit: Orbital ATK/NASA/Simon & Schuster/collectSPACE.com An astronaut’s two children’s books about a mouse who goes to space are now actually going to space, where the author’s twin brother may take a turn reading […]

In the latest ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ trailer, Superman and Batman wage war against each other. The Soyuz rocket explosion sequence from the first trailer is revisited. And Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman square off against a new villian. Credit: Warner Bros. To source