May 20, 2013
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world’s tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. This surprise result was achieved by firing proton “bullets” ...
If you happened to be looking up at the moon on March 17, you may have been able to observe the brightest lunar impact ever recorded. On the night of March 17, if you were looking at the moon at just the right moment, you may have noticed a ...
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft appears to be hobbled by a faulty wheel and may be near the end of its four-year mission, space agency scientists have said. The problem is that a reaction wheel that keeps the spacecraft pointed in ...
Astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have spotted a cluster of hydrogen clouds bridging the space between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum. They detected these objects using the Green Bank Telescope. They also ...
A meteor shower made from the dusty leftovers of the famed Halley’s Comet will be at its best on Sunday (May 5) and NASA doesn’t want you to miss it. The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak Sunday night and NASA scientists ...
If you have any interest in astronomy you have probably seen dozens if not hundreds of breathtaking images of the universe and our Solar System. Those images are usually acquired by some of Earth’s best spacecrafts, like Hubble, Cassini, ...
Comet ISON NASA released the photos of the Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) taken on April 10 by the Hubble Space Telescope, when it was slightly closer to the Earth than Jupiter. Plus, later in this gallery, we’ll show a surprise comet finding from ...
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, is a speculative venture. There is currently zero evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligent extraterrestrial life — why the heck are we bothering to search ...
Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler planet-finding spacecraft said Thursday that they had found the most Earth-like worlds yet known in the outer cosmos, a pair of planets that appear capable of supporting life and that orbit a star 1,200 ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope – with a little help from an amateur astronomer – has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million light-years away, practically a neighbour by ...
Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet’s closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previous estimates, at about 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers). At the same time, the new data set now significantly ...
A new study from researchers at the University of Leicester has shown that a “rain” of charged water particles from Saturn’s rings impacts the composition and temperature structure of parts of the planet’s upper atmosphere. The researchers also ...
NASA has selected a $200 million mission to carry out a full-sky survey for exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. The space observatory, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled for a 2017 launch. Like the currently ...
Mars with a blue sky is a bit disconcerting (here’s a picture of a piece of Mount Sharp with the colors balanced correctly). But this is more than just a (ahem) curiosity. Geologists train under the lighting conditions we have here on Earth, but ...
