Space Exploration Putting Astronauts on the Moon in 2024 Is a Tall Order, NASA Saysspace.com - Mike Wall If you're skeptical that NASA can put boots on the moon by 2024, you're not alone. During a hearing of the space subcommittee of the U.S. House of …
News Venus was potentially habitable until a mysterious event happenedCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Venus likely maintained stable temperatures and hosted liquid water for billions of years before an event triggered drastic changes in the planet, according to a new study. Now, Venus is a mostly
Neutron Stars Recently Discovered Neutron Star Is Almost Too Massive to Existsmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Astronomers at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia have located the most massive neutron star on record, so dense that it may be close to the …
Comets ‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’The Atlantic - Marina KorenThe second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is making quite an entrance. No one knows where it came from, but it’s here now. And the chase is on. Astronomers around the world
Asteroids We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect itMIT Technology Review - Neel V. Patel NASA and ESA want to know that if an asteroid were on a collision course with Earth, we could do something about it An Earth-bound asteroid wouldn’t …
Space China's Enormous Radio Telescope Is Already Picking Up Mysterious SignalsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanThe Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a project that the Chinese government first began planning in 2008, is now fully operational. By the end of September 2019, the $171 million
Universe Most massive neutron star ever detected strains the limits of physicsCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Astronomers have detected the most massive neutron star ever, and it almost shouldn't even exist. Neutron stars are the smallest in the universe, with a diameter comparable to the size of a city
Science Why is it so hard to land on the Moon?Fox News - Adam MannSpace is hard. That was the takeaway on Sept. 7, when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with its Vikram lunar lander during an attempt to touch down at the moon's south pole. was
Science (India) US Moon Landing Hopefuls Watch Silent India Lander — and Learnspace.com - Meghan Bartels As India attempted a daring moon landing last week — and in the wake of the apparent crash of its lander — NASA and U.S. companies have watched for …
Nebulas Rho Ophiuchi's Colorful Cosmic Clouds Glisten in Starry Deep-Space Photospace.com - Miguel Claro Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night …
Astronomy 14 of the most astounding astronomy photos taken in 2019Mashable - Nicole GallucciAstronomy photos are, quite literally, out of this world. If you're a fan of captivating images of the moon, sun, galaxies, stars, and aurorae, you should definitely check out the photography from this
Comets Bizarre comet from another star system just spottedNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoDiscovered by an amateur astronomer, the inbound object is only the second of its kind yet detected. In the sleepy predawn hours of August 30, a Ukrainian amateur astronomer named Gennady Borisov spotted
Universe Giant balloon structures found at the center of the Milky WayCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — A pair of towering, hourglass-like balloons have been discovered at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a new study. They are some of the largest features ever observed the
Moon Watch NASA's SLS Megarocket Get Ready for New US Moon Missions (Video)space.com - Elizabeth Howell NASA is hard at work getting its new, moon-bound rocket and spacecraft ready for Artemis 1, the next mission of the agency's program, which aims to …
Magnetism Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io May Not Have a Magma Ocean After Allspace.com - Nola Taylor Redd The most volcanic body in the solar system may not boast a magma ocean beneath its surface after all. Scientists had thought that magnetic field …
Exoplanets Water Vapor Detected in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet in the Habitable Zonesmithsonianmag.com - Jay Bennett Exoplanet science has literally opened new worlds to study, with planets populating the galaxy unlike anything in our small solar system. Hot …
Space The safest bet for space settlers? Would you believe it’s inside Mars’ moon Deimos?geekwire.com - Alan Boyle The smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos, was named after the Greek god of terror — but the way former NASA flight surgeon Jim Logan sees it, Deimos …
PhilosophyThe First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married ImmortalityBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaA dual serenade to being and non-being, composed in glass, metal, and stardust. In 1847, the Harvard College Observatory acquired a colossal telescope dubbed the Great Refractor. It would remain the most
Moon India's moon mission locates landing craft, no communication yetReuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: Student walk past a screen during a live streaming of Chandrayaan-2 landing at an educational institute in Mumbai, India, September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo BENGALURU
3D Modeling NASA just released a high-res 3D model of the Moon that’ll blow you awaybgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA has provided us with some truly fantastic images of the Moon over the years. We’ve gotten to see Earth’s friendly little neighbor from just …
Space Telescope Promising Webb Space Telescope is a feat of engineeringdispatch.com - By Kenneth HicksFor Almost everyone has heard of the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s been taking spectacular photos of objects in outer space for nearly 30 years. Over …
Chandrayaan Programme India's space hopes dashed for now with loss of lunar landerAl Jazeera - Laura WinterWith 1.3 billion people watching, 'Vikram' fails to make soft landing on moon's South Pole but Modi praises programme. The moment India had waited years for - when the "15 minutes of terror" transformed
Science Making sense of Saturn's impossible rotationphys.org - Larry O'hanlon Saturn may be doing a little electromagnetic shimmy and twist which has been throwing off attempts by scientists to determine how long it takes for …
Geek NASA’s NuSTAR Space Observatory Spots Rare Energetic Event That’s Gone in a FlashGeek - By Genevieve Scarano NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory recently captured extremely illuminated sources of X-ray light after they mysteriously showed up and disappeared in …
Hubble Hubble Space Telescope Captures Final Stages of Star’s LifeGeek - By Genevieve Scarano The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped a dreamy photo of NGC 5307, a dying, sun-like star that has collapsed in on itself and shed its …
The Future ISS robot Fedor trades in gun on Earth for electric drill in spaceCNET - by Amanda Kooser The daring humanoid robot is staying busy on the ISS under close cosmonaut supervision.
Satellites SpaceX Starlink satellite nearly collides with European satelliteCNET - by Eric Mack The European Space Agency makes an evasive maneuver to avoid a crash.
NASA Why We Need to Get Back to Venusrealclearscience.com - Paul K. Byrne Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like Earth. It’s about the same size, is made of about the same stuff and formed …
Space Telescope NASA shares new portrait of Jupiter captured by Hubble Space Telescopedpreview.com - Brittany Hillen The aging Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new full portrait image of Jupiter, our Solar System’s stormy gas giant. NASA shared the image …
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