Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA shared this photograph of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-6) as it approached the International Space Station. Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet successfully captured the spacecraft using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. To source
By Steve Spaleta | December 13, 2016 09:52am ET The ESA mission to the Red Planet is underway and the Trace Gas Orbiter is delivering data as planned. The 2020 ExoMars rover mission has been approved and even though the mission’s Schiaparelli lander crashed, much was learned from the decent. credit : ESA Watch more […]
By Steve Spaleta | December 13, 2016 09:23pm ET If its similar to boron found on Earth, it could potentially mean that there was habitable groundwater on ancient Mars. Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher from the Los Alamos National Laboratory explains the find. credit : Los Alamos National Laboratory Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE […]
Uranus’ tilt essentially has the planet orbiting the Sun on its side, the axis of its spin is nearly pointing at the Sun. Although planets surround stars in the galaxy, how they form remains a subject of debate. Despite the wealth of worlds in our own solar system, scientists still aren’t certain how planets are […]
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. We know that there is sound on planets and moons in the solar system – places where there’s a medium through which sound waves can be transmitted, such as an atmosphere or an ocean. But […]
The Geminid meteor shower , a favorite annual night sky event among stargazers, peaks tonight (Dec. 13), and you can watch the action live online if Mother Nature spoils your view. The Slooh Community Observatory will host a live webcast featuring views of the “falling stars” from Slooh’s flagship observatory at the Institute of Astrophysics of […]
Colliding black holes create space-time ripples that can be seen by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The science collaboration responsible for the first-ever direct detection of ripples in cosmic space-time has been recognized by two publications for its monumental achievement. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was built to detect gravitational waves — […]
A Leonid meteor streaks over a New Jersey house in this amazing image by astrophotographer Jeffrey Berkes. The 2016 Leonid meteor shower will peak overnight on Nov. 16 and 17, 2016. Through dogged determination, Jon Larsen has become driven to find space particles, which date back to when our sun was a baby, in the […]
The idea of geoengineering a solution to climate change has been discussed for decades, and now a new study proposes a plan that would cool the planet while repairing a hole in the ozone layer at the same time. The trick: using calcite particles injected high into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, […]
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NASA’s Juno mission has successfully completed its third close approach of Jupiter, NASA confirmed on Monday . Still in a 53-day orbit, the spacecraft is not due to make another close pass until Feb. 2, 2017. The moment of closest approach to Jupiter’s cloud tops occurred at precisely 9:04 a.m. PST (12:04 p.m. ET) on Sunday […]
By Steve Spaleta | December 12, 2016 11:29am ET In 2015, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) detected what was characterized as a “superluminous supernova,” the brightest ever detected. Further review of the event (known as ASASSN-15lh) using the Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories suggests that a supermassive black hole destroying […]
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