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The new moon arrives just after Valentine’s Day, on Feb. 15. For people in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer stars will make their last appearance in the evening sky, and planets will be rising after midnight. A new moon is, officially, when the moon is at the same celestial longitude as the sun. That means […]

Image of starlight on exoplanet. The closest potentially habitable planet may not be so habitable after all. The atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b could have been whisked away from strong winds blowing from its star. It is just one of dozens of rocky planets known to exist in the habitable zones around stars — the […]

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule attached to the International Space Station. A Dragon capsule headed to the station in December 2017 will carry a Space Debris Sensor for tracking tiny particles that hit the station. How many tiny bits of space debris are pummeling the International Space Station day after day? A new experiment headed […]

A new trailer for SyFy’s Krypton , the series set in the distant past of Superman’s homeworld, goes more in depth on the fall of the House of El – and shows that there’s still “hope” left. Check it out here. [embedded content] Krypton premieres in 2018 on SyFy . Originally published on Newsarama . To […]

Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,500 confirmed alien planets to date. NASA is about to announce some more big alien-planet news. The agency will hold a news conference Thursday (Dec. 14) at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) to reveal a new discovery made by its prolific Kepler space telescope […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocked launches from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2014. The launchpad was destroyed by a rocket explosion in 2016. After repairs and upgrades, SpaceX will resume flights from the pad in December 2017. On Tuesday (Dec. 12), SpaceX will make its first launch attempt from Complex […]

The planetarium’s 180-degree screen spans more than 12,000 square feet: the footprint of a four-bedroom house. JERSEY CITY, N.J. —The Liberty Science Center in here has unveiled the largest and most advanced planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. Space.com had the opportunity to visit the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium , a cinema masterpiece poised to bring astronomy […]

Running short on holiday cash? Tired of commuting in a ’03 Saturn Ion? Desperately want your favorite NFL team to get on track? Look skyward on Wednesday night (Dec. 13) and you should see plenty of shooting stars to wish upon.   Tradition has it that wishes made on shooting stars come true. But astronomy has […]

A mosaic of images taken by Viking 1 centers on Valles Marineris. Covering nearly a fifth the circumference of Mars, the canyon system Valles Marineris reigns as the largest canyon system on the Red Planet. Dwarfing its Earthly counterpart, the Grand Canyon, the Martian feature is one of the larger canyons in the solar system. […]

When Sgt. Michael Virga went out on patrol last weekend in Hamilton, New Jersey, he wasn’t expecting to see something truly out-of-this-world. But thanks to a spectacular fireball, that’s exactly what the officer saw. The fireball streaked across the early-morning sky at 3:09 a.m. EST (0809 GMT) on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Virga’s vehicle dash […]

An illustration of the Ixion module, an upper stage left in orbit and refitted as a space station module, being attached to the ISS> HOUSTON — A five-month study supported by NASA has concluded that it is technically feasible to convert a launch vehicle upper stage into a habitat module that could be used on […]

A computer-generated view of Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. The massive Martian mountain towers high above the surrounding plains of the red planet, and may be biding its time until the next eruption. Characteristics Found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator, Olympus Mons is one […]

An image taken of the woman’s left retina shows damage at the center. Reproduced with permission from JAMA Ophthalmology. 2017. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.5517. Using a new type of imaging, doctors were able to peer into the eyes of a young woman and see — on the cellular level — the type of damage that occurs from looking […]