Astronomers have found evidence suggesting that two infant planets are forming around a distant young star in our Milky Way galaxy. Located roughly 400 light-years from Earth, the young star, known as HD 163296, is approximately 5 million years old and about twice the mass of our sun. The two newborn planets orbiting HD […]
“Hidden Figures” depicts the same NASA history as shown in “The Right Stuff,” but with a different focus. There is a scene in the new feature film “Hidden Figures” where Octavia Spencer, portraying a real-life NASA mathematician, leads a group of her fellow African American women “computers” down a hall towards their new assignment. The […]
Just hours after the winter solstice, a mass of energetic particles from the Sun smashed into the magnetic field around Earth. The strong solar wind stream stirred up a display of northern lights over northern Canada. To source
By Steve Spaleta | December 27, 2016 10:50am ET The Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center sifted through thousands of photos to deliver their top 16 of 2016. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured all of the breathtaking images. The 100 Best Space Photos of 2016 credit : NASA Johnson […]
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A new technique for studying exoplanet atmospheres could make it possible for scientists to get a close look at the atmosphers of planets like Proxima b in the 2020s. A newly proposed technique could make it possible to search for life on alien planets much sooner than scientists had expected. Earlier this year, scientists […]
After decades of uncertainty, it seems that astronomers may have found the strongest evidence yet that Proxima Centauri is indeed “gravitationally bound” to Alpha Centauri. This is interesting for many reasons, primarily because now we’re pretty sure the Alpha Centauri system is a triple-star system, with two stars (Alpha Centauri A and B) orbiting closely […]
In late December, the ringed planet Saturn will be sitting very low in the southeastern sky before dawn. On Tuesday, Dec. 27, the old crescent moon will sit only 5 degrees to the northwest of (above) the planet. The best viewing times are between 6:15 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. local time. Early Tuesday morning (Dec. […]
The JunoCam aboard NASA’s Juno probe instrument snapped this photo of Jupiter during a close flyby of the gas giant. The first science results from the mission are expected to appear in 2017. 2016 has been a bountiful year for space science. Before the calendar runs out, here’s our list of the biggest space stories […]
A false color image of the impact crater Occator shows the intriguing bright spots now known to be highly reflective salts. Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, is pocketed with cold, dark craters, several of which are layered in ice, raising the prospects that this frigid dwarf planet once had perhaps an […]
An artist’s concept of Europa’s surface. On the moon’s still-unknown terrain, a mobile lander could have trouble moving away from a contaminated site, scientists say. Searching for signs of life, or life’s precursors, on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa could spoil the hunt before it begins — which is why many scientists advocate going […]
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson dons a Santa hat and Christmas socks in weightlessness to celebrate the holidays on the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2016. Astronauts Peggy Whitson, Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet discuss Christmas on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Today, astronauts on the International Space Station will celebrate the day in […]
Astronaut Piers Sellers is pictured floating aboard the International Space Station, in front of a window overlooking Earth in May 2010. Sellers, a climate scientist, died on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Piers Sellers, a British-American climate scientist and former NASA astronaut who launched on three space shuttle missions to the International Space Station, died on […]