After sunset on November 20, Saturn makes an appearance. Look toward the south to see the planet just above a quarter moon, with the pair joined by bright stars Fomalhaut and Altair. Four days later, you’ll see an almost full moon close to Jupiter after sunset. As November draws to a ...
The researchers said their search for signs of possible intelligent life will also include evidence of city lights, very large structures and big collections of satellites. Another project leader is Avi Loeb, an astronomy professor at Harvard. He said in a statement he hopes the new research will...
Ocker set out to find a running measure of interstellar medium density to fill in the gaps – one that doesn’t depend on the occasional shockwaves propagating out from the Sun. After filtering through Voyager 1’s data, looking for weak but consistent signals, she found a promising candidat...
For both rotating stars and eclipsing binaries, TESS's surveying work could help scientists find a whole lot more of these types of stellar spectacles. But astrophysicists turning to TESS data are limited by the same mission constraint that lets the spacecraft study so many different stars: Ever...
New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year and the author, most recently, of The Underground History of American Education. He was a participant in the Harper’s Magazine forum “School on a Hill,” which appeared in the September 2001 issue. You can find h...
You can find Tariq at Space.com and as the co-host to the This Week In Space podcast with space historian Rod Pyle on the TWiT network. To see his latest project, you can follow Tariq on Twitter @tariqjmalik. More about spaceflight SpaceX rocket launch spawns dazzling 'space jellyfish'...
horizon. The object on top is the planet Venus, and the object beneath that is the planet Mercury. Both planets are in the constellation Aries, which is a Name A Star Live constellation. So if you have a star in Aries, then if you find Venus and Mercury, you know your star is ...
alhave been analyzing come from CRaTER on the LRO spacecraft in orbit around the Moon, which is point-blank exposed to any cosmic radiation the sun allows to pass. Here on Earth, we have two additional lines of defense: the magnetic field and atmosphere of our planet. Both mitigate cosmic...
lead scientist for the MarsExploration Rover project. "The terrain we're in right now has little exposedbedrock, and that makes it more treacherous than when there's bedrock around.So we're going to tread cautiously. But what lies farther ahead is difficult tosay... we'll find out as we...
There were more than just photos on the Golden Record, adding another level of rights and permissions for the team to sort. Most people they asked said yes without hesitation – but you won’t find the Beatles on there; the inclusion and immortality of arguably mankind’s most famous pop ...