NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the missi… [+2513 chars]
<ul><li>Giant asteroid the size of a building flies by earth Monday night.</li><li>Asteroid is officially named 467460 (2006 JF42).</li><li>It was 5.7 million kilometers from our planet.</li></ul> A… [+874 chars]
ByMara Johnson-Groh, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 10, 2022 The GOES-17 satellite captured images of an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai vol… [+6145 chars]
Nasa has detected what could be a spontaneous flip of a black hole 236 million light-years away. The magnetic field of the cosmic body seemingly reversed, leading the team to detect a rare and enigm… [+273 chars]
ByAlise Fisher, NASAMay 10, 2022 Comparison of a Webb Space Telescope Mid-Infrared Instrument image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and a past image of the same view using the Spitzer Space Telescope … [+3647 chars]
Every time you take a step, space itself glows with a soft warmth. Called the FullingDaviesUnruh effect (or sometimes just Unruh effect if you're pushed for time), this eerie glow of radiation emerg… [+3652 chars]