This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the delightfully named Little Sombrero galaxy, called that for its long thin shape with a bulge in the middle which is reminiscent of the shape… [+2087 chars]
Multiple star systems are very common in the Milky Way. While most of these systems are binary systems consisting of two stars, others contain three, four, or even six stars. These systems tend to b… [+3144 chars]
Before the pandemic levels of anxiety were already pretty high, with one in five of us struggling. But, unsurprisingly, the figures have soared in the past couple of years, to one in three. Copin… [+2376 chars]
An asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building is approaching Earth. Photo: Getty Images. <ul><li>NASA claims that an asteroid larger than New York’s Empire State Building will pass ‘close… [+1298 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
Early tomorrow morning, Ireland will see a total eclipse of the moon just as the sun is rising and the moon is setting. A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, earth and the moon are aligned with the e… [+928 chars]
Using the most diplomatic language possible, the three billionaires who paid $55 million each for a trip to the International Space Station told a news conference they were overworked on their epic a… [+1931 chars]
By use of extremely powerful telescopes, scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the center of our galaxy. This object – known as Sagitt… [+3650 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
The crew of private astronauts on Axiom Spaces Ax-1 mission says they were entirely too busy while on the International Space Station. So busy, in fact, it interrupted the other astronauts on the ISS… [+2005 chars]
May 15, 2022 marks the first anniversary of the remarkable touch-down by China's Tianwen-1 on Mars in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of the red planet, … [+2660 chars]
Welcome back to our ongoing "Interplanetary Series." In our previous installments, we looked at what it would take to live on Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars, the Main Asteroid Belt, and Jupiter's lar… [+25755 chars]
