or the Northern Crown. It can be spotted as a small, semicircular arc near Bootes and Hercules. When the nova occurs, it will appear as a “new” bright star. “Look up after sunset during summer months to find Hercules!” suggests NASA. “Scan between Vega and Arcturus, near the disti...
NASA Discovers Planet with the Help of British StudentA BRITISH student who was given a telescope at the age of 10 by his parents has helped American scientists to find an undiscovered planet orbiting a distant star.
The Red Planet: Design on Our Race to Mars November 03, 2020 © Qingshan Wu Space has long captured our imaginations. Looking to the ocean above us, writers, scientists and designers alike have continuously dreamed up new visions for a future on distant planets.Marsis at the center of this...
Two giant planets comparable to our own system’sSaturnorbit a star not unlike our Sun some 700 light-years away. The outer planet has the longest year – 483 days – of any found so far by NASA’s TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). It’s also among the coldest. Astrono...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo 'by remarkable luck' January 21, 2023 at 5:31 AM Webb studies a planet-forming disk The James Webb Space Telescope studied the planet forming disk of dust surrounding a small young star.(Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI)...
As the infrared space telescope continues its long-duration survey of the universe, it is creating a unique resource for future astronomers to make new discoveries. NASA’s NEOWISE mission has released its10th year of infrared data– the latest in a unique long-duration (or “time-domain”) ...
Even with the Coronagraph blocking a star’s light, a planet will still be exceptionally faint, and it might take a full month of observations to get a good picture of the distant world. To make these observations, the instrument’s camera detects individual photons, or single particles of ...
and that there is no other place for us to live but the thin surface layer of our planet, bordered by the bleak nothingness of space. Never before did so many people recognize how limited our Earth really is, and how perilous it would be to tamper with its ecological balance. Ever since...
originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, is the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA lander to bring a rocket to the surface capable of launching soil and rock samples gathered by another rover alr...
Monday's solar eclipse across a swath of the U.S. is dominating the space conversation, so here's how to know if or when you'll see it.