Full-Size, High-Fidelity Replica of Hubble Space Telescope Installed Inside...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 06.07.2013 Full-Size, High-Fidelity Replica of Hubble Space Telescope Installed Inside New Space Shuttle AtlantisSM Hubble Replica...
View ArticleAstronomers Bring Stars to Indianapolis in Public Skywatching Event
Astrophotographer Scott MacNeill sent in this image of Saturn and moons: Titan (left), Tethys (top center), Dione (mid center), Rhea (bottom center), and Enceladus (right). He took the image from the...
View ArticleNASA Astrobiologist to Discuss Exotic Earths at Library of Congress Spring...
Download image NASA Logo. (PRNewsFoto/NASA) WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The public is invited to a free lecture called "Exotic Earths: Exploring Planets Around Other Stars"...
View ArticleScientists size up lightest known galaxy (University of California)
(Source: University of California) Steve Zylius/UC Irvine UC Irvine physics and astronomy postdoctoral scholar Evan Kirby is lead author of a paper documenting the least dense galaxy in the known...
View ArticleAsteroid-Mining Company Hires Former White House Official
Interceptor missions will allow Planetary Resources to quickly acquire data on several near-Earth asteroids, stepping up the likelihood of prospecting these objects for their volatile, mineral and...
View ArticleRare Meteor Shower May Grace Skies This Week
Skywatchers are crossing their fingers that, early this Tuesday morning, they may witness a brief outburst of a dormant meteor shower that has not been seen in over eight decades. If astronomers'...
View ArticleTiniest galaxy in the Universe has just 1000 stars
Scientists have finally parsed the tiniest galaxy in the known Universe. It contains just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together. It is located at the edge of the Milky Way,...
View ArticleSwift produces best UV maps of the nearest galaxies
Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two...
View ArticleSaturn's Moon Dione May Have Had Active Subsurface Ocean, Cassini Photos...
The plain-looking Saturn moon Dione may have once had a geologically active subsurface ocean, new images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal. Images of Dione's 500-mile-long (800 kilometers)...
View ArticleHold Off on the Alpha Centauri Trip
Cosmic hearts started beating a little faster last fall when a team of European astronomers announced that they had found a planet with a mass comparable to Earth’s orbiting Alpha Centauri B, part of...
View ArticleNew technique may help detect hidden Earth-like planets
June 08: Phil Hinz, an associate professor of astronomy at the UA's Steward Observatory, and Defrere are working on an instrument that will allow astronomers to detect fainter clouds that are only...
View ArticleHow an Exploding Comet Might Have Forged Life on Earth
Scientists are reasonably certain that life on Earth began between three and a half and four billion years ago, when complex, nonliving organic molecules assembled themselves into some sort of nucleic...
View ArticleNew Survey Will Hunt for Nearby Alien Planets on the Cheap
The Next-Generation Transit Survey, which is shown in this artist’s impression, is currently being built atop the peak of Cerro Paranal in the Atacama desert next to the likes of ESO’s Very Large...
View ArticleAlien-Planet Mappers Tackle 'Ninja' Worlds, Other Challenges
The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra....
View ArticleInteresting Facts About Saturn
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This article comes from our archive, but we updated it with this video. Saturn is my absolute favorite object in the night...
View ArticleCaught on video: Earth-buzzing asteroid 1998 QE2
Fortunately, though, the asteroid, called 1998 QE2, passed Earth with about 3.6 million miles to spare and never was thought to pose a threat to our planet. For more good news, the cameras were...
View ArticleAsteroid discovered day before close approach
Cape Canaveral - An asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday, the latest in a parade of visiting celestial objects that has raised awareness of...
View ArticleHow asteroid just missed Earth
Cape Canaveral - An asteroid the size of a small truck zoomed past Earth four times closer than the moon on Saturday, the latest in a parade of visiting celestial objects that has raised awareness of...
View ArticleNASA Discovers Moon on Approaching Asteroid
An impact from the two-mile wide asteroid would be powerful enough to destroy most life on Earth Comment () Tweet An asteroid nearly two miles wide will pass by Earth Friday and it will bring with it...
View ArticleHuge asteroid about nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size to flyby...
Zee Media Bureau Washington: An asteroid named 1998 QE2 will whiz past Earth on Friday, May 31st, at 4:59 pm EDT (3.25 am IST). The asteroid will be travelling across the sky with a relative velocity...
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