by Karl Tate , SPACE.com Infographics Artist | September 18, 2015 09:29am ET Editor’s note: To find out more about the rare supermoon lunar eclipse of Sept. 27-28 and how to see it, visit: Supermoon Lunar Eclipse 2015: Full ‘Blood Moon’ Coverage . Such an event won’t happen again until 2033. The word “eclipse” means to obscure. When […]
A 2013 map of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang, taken by the ESA’s Planck spacecraft, captured the oldest light in the universe. This information helps astronomers determine the age of the universe.Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration. The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At […]
The dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid in the solar system, is round and may contain more fresh water than the entire Earth. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been exploring Ceres since 2015. See more views of Ceres in this SPACE.com gallery. HERE:This image of Ceres as seen by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows how the dwarf […]
Follow news, updates and real-time reporting on ESA’s comet mission via the Rosetta blog To source
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Aurorae Choas Credit: ISRO Aurorae Chaos, Pyrrhae Chaos and other regions of Mars captured by the Mars Orbiter camera. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Valles Marineris Credit: ISRO Canyon walls clearly show in this image of Valles Marineris. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Valles Marineris – Large Canyon Credit: ISRO Valles Marineris is the largest canyon […]
by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor | May 05, 2015 11:02pm ET This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Sirius A, the brightest star in our nighttime sky, along with its faint, tiny stellar companion, Sirius B. Astronomers overexposed the image of Sirius A so that the dim Sirius B (tiny dot at lower left) could […]
On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data to the NASA Exoplanet Archive. original
Following the apparent failure of reaction wheel 4, engineers were successful at transitioning the spacecraft to Point Rest State. original
At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode. original
NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency’s Kepler Space Telescope. original
During a scheduled contact, engineers discovered Kepler was in a self-protective mode. The spacecraft returned to science data collection on May 6. original
The team recently completed a monthly science data download, marking the successful completion of Quarter 16 flight operations. original
NASA will hold a news conference at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 3, to discuss the first results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment. AMS is a state-of-the-art cosmic ray particle physics detector located on the exterior of the International Space Station. To source