Credit: NASA/BICEP2 collaboration So it looks like we’ll be talking a lot about gravitational waves over the coming days , but why can’t they be called “gravity waves?” In this social media world where brevity is key, it may seem that chopping “gravitational” to “gravity” is no big deal — it saves a whole six […]
NASA is developing a mission that would perform dozens of flybys of the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s highly anticipated mission to the potentially life-supporting Jupiter moon Europa may not get off the ground until the late 2020s, agency officials say. Last year, Congress granted NASA $175 million to continue developing its Europa […]
An artist’s illustration of NASA’s InSight Mars Lander on the Red Planet’s surface, which will not be ready to launch as planned in March 2016 because of a leak in the vacuum chamber surrounding one of its key instruments. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will decide soon whether a Mars lander that was supposed to launch next […]
There will be a pretty first-quarter moon on Sunday night, Feb. 14, but when is the last-quarter moon this month? Credit: Starry Night software As you gaze at the first-quarter moon this week, you may wonder when the last-quarter moon will occur this month. But there won’t be one, if you live in North or […]
View from a computer simulation showing the production of gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib 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 […]
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Artist’s concept showing the 77-ton configuration of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket launching into space. Credit: NASA/MSFC The proposed NASA budget for the 2017 fiscal year, $19 billion, has evoked mixed reactions from government officials and space organizations. White House officials unveiled the Obama administration’s 2017 budget proposal today (Feb. 9), and NASA’s share came […]
The new website “Discover Sci-Fi,” produced by ten science fiction authors, promises to offer discounts, sneak peeks and blog posts directly to readers. Credit: Discover Sci-Fi Several science fiction authors have opened up a new online platform intended to help them connect directly with readers — and it’s currently offering a free e-book upon sign-up […]
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The destructive meteor trace that fell on Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Credit: Alex Alishevskikh/Flickr, CC BY-SA This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. There is nothing more certain in life than death – a cheerful thought for a dismal February. Even though […]
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A new telescope view has revealed hundreds of galaxies that were previously obscured by the Milky Way’s bulk. Scientists used an Australian radio telescope famous for assisting with the moon landings to peer through the gas and dust of the Milky Way , and uncovered 883 galaxies hidden behind it — one-third of which were […]