Strategic Command Issues Statement on Trident Missile Test that Freaked Out the West Coast
With images like these, it’s no wonder California — not to mention the Twittersphere — freaked out Saturday evening when an unannounced test of a submarine-launched Trident missile lit up the evening sky. Photographer Porter Tinsley and her wife were on the shore of California’s desolate Salton Sea taking long exposures and time lapses with […]
Wow! Missile Test That Shocked California Snapped Against Milky Way | Video
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Exoplanet GJ 1132b: Earth-size World Is Near-Twin of Venus (Infographic)
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist | November 11, 2015 01:00pm ET A planet close to its parent star is hot like Venus, but rotates quickly and could have a substantial atmosphere. FULL STORY: Closest Earth-size Alien Planet Found, May Be a Venus Twin Called GJ 1132b, the exoplanet is located 39 light-years from Earth and is […]
Finding 'Spooky': Why Hunting Asteroids Is Hard
This artist’s concept shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers brought the mission out of hibernation to hunt for more asteroids and comets in a project called NEOWISE.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Newspapers, news channels, radio programs and social media were on fire last month with […]
What's a Planet? There's a Test (and Pluto Flunked it)
Back-lit, blue-skied Pluto is still a planet in the heart, though not in official registers.Credit: NASA/New Horizons Team Nine years ago, the International Astronomical Union established new criteria for determining what classifies as a “planet,” a controversial move that officially (but not in spirit) stripped Pluto’s status as the solar system’s ninth planet. Left undecided […]
US Senate Passes Compromise Commercial Space Bill
A provision of the final bill gives companies the rights to space resources they obtain from asteroids and other solar system bodies, without granting them ownership of the bodies themselves.Credit: Bryan Versteeg/DSI WASHINGTON — The Senate passed Nov. 10 the final version of a commercial space bill that extends two key regulatory provisions and provides […]
Closest Earth-size Alien Planet Found, May Be a Venus Twin
A newly discovered planet 39 light-years away is being called the closest Earth-size exoplanet ever discovered — and a potential “Venus twin” — providing the mouth-watering opportunity for a close-up look at the environment on a rocky alien world. One of the dire frustrations of studying planets around other stars (and, really, any astronomical object) is their […]
These Ancient Stars May Be the Oldest Ever Seen in the Milky Way
An artist’s illustration of a hypernova, a star explosion 10 times more powerful than a regular supernova. The first stars to ignite would have died in explosions like these, scientists say.Credit: European Southern Observatory Astronomers have found what may be the oldest stars in the Milky Way. The stars, discovered in the galaxy’s bulge, reveal […]
Closest Rocky Exoplanet Yet Found Is Earth-Sized | Video
The closest rocky planet like our Earth has been discovered, 40 light years out – revolving close in to an M-dwarf star about 1/5th the size of our Sun. It was uncovered by the MEarth-South telescope array on Cerro Tololo in Chile. (Full Story) Credit: Space.com / Animations & Imagery: Jonathan Irwin, Zach Berta-Thompson, NASA, […]
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Part of Pluto's Heart Was 'Born Yesterday'
By counting craters across Pluto, scientists determined that some regions of the dwarf planet are as young as 10 million years old while others are nearly as old as the 4.5-billion-year-old solar system.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Pluto has a surprisingly youthful heart — the smooth, round […]
'Zombie' Star's Asteroid 'Lunch' Revealed in Close-Up View
A “zombie” star and the remains of its “lunch” are revealed in a new close-up view, 12 years in the making. When an asteroid wandered too close to an Earth-size white dwarf — the dense core of a star at the end of its life — it was drawn in and destroyed by the star’s […]
NASA's Innovative Drone Glider Prototype Aces Test Flight
NASA Armstrong’s Prandtl-D No. 3 research aircraft made its first flight on Oct. 28, 2015.Credit: NASA/Lauren Hughes A remotely piloted aircraft achieved an important research milestone last month when a subscale “flying wing” glider successfully completed a series of flight tests. The remotely piloted glider prototype is the third iteration of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic […]