The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
ZME Science on MSN6d
The most successful space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
Space.com on MSN4d
Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms
Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades, which knocked the country's atomic clocks ...
Space.com on MSN1d
How to see Venus light the sky as the bright 'morning star' through fall 2025
In the coming days ahead, if any of your friends or relatives remark to you that they saw a "strange UFO" on the way to work ...
Esky man brings the planets down to Earth
The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN5d
From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
New distant warm Jupiter discovered with TESS
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...
Yahoo News Australia3d
Distant 'music' in outer space leads to new discovery 2,700 lightyears away
Scientists have listened to distant “music” in outer space to help them build a picture of an ancient world 2,700 light years away ... understanding of our own sun and how it is likely ...
Astronomy on MSN2d
The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11: Catch your last views of Uranus
A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...
Federal News Network6d
Inside a NASA mission to better understand a certain kind of storm
Storms caused by updrafts have become of special interest to NASA. It has a special program called the Investigation of ...
Worcester Magazine5dOpinion
'A thrilling ride like no other': Williams, Wimore, and the view from Goddard's Worcester
Finally back on the Third Stone from the Sun, astronauts Sunita Williams and Eugene "Butch" Wilmore have returned from a much ...
Science News3d
‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft in the real world
A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...