For the first time, astronomers have discovered the solid form of tiny carbon spheres in deep space in vast cloud of particles locked in orbit around two distant stars.
The carbon spheres, known as buck…
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Anyone out under the stars in the early evening lately likely cannot help but notice two brilliant objects dominating the western sky: the planets Venus and Jupiter.
Venus, because it is closer to the s…
The YouTube Space Lab program aims to get students thinking about outer space as their experimental sphere.Can zero gravity open the way to better fungicides, novel types of liquid circuitry and magnets … and previously unseen snowflake shapes? Those…
YouTube Space LabThe YouTube Space Lab program aims to get students thinking about outer space as their experimental sphere.Can zero gravity open the way to better fungicides, novel types of liquid circuitry and magnets … and previously unseen snowfl…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian ever to command a spaceship when he takes the helm of the International Space Station in 2013.
Hadfield cur…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian ever to command a spaceship when he takes the helm of the International Space Station in 2013.
Hadfield cur…
Likewise, NASA still plans to join the European Space Agency on the Solar Orbiter Collaboration. NASA’s share of that 2017 mission, which includes providing the launch and two instruments, is expected to top $400 million.
Spending…
Scientists have measured the fastest winds yet observed from a stellar-mass black hole, shedding light on the behavior of these curious cosmic objects.
The winds, clocked by astronomers using NASA’s Cha…
A two-stage Terrier-Black Brant rocket arcs through an auroral display 200 miles above Alaska’s Poker Flat Research Range as the MICA mission investigates the underlying physics of the northern lights. In this long-exposure photo, the rocket’s first st…
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It’s smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth.
An international team of astronomer…