As future locations to explore in our solar system go, some particularly exciting options are worlds with subsurface oceans. Places like Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are both tho… [+2573 chars]
By Kate StockmannJuly 3, 2022 5:29amIt’s a big summer for stargazers this year. Dark Sky Chair for the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association, Mike Warkentin spoke with CKNX News Today about what we … [+1453 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryJuly 3, 2022 NASAs Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rovers mission. The image is mad… [+5359 chars]
Supernova is an outright explosion of the star. The phenomenon is associated with death of a star. But a 'Nova' is a different type of explosion. It is a transient (short-lived) phenomenon in the uni… [+1931 chars]
After holding postdoctoral positions at Caltech and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the astronomy department at the University of Washington in 1967. An avid hiker and mountain clim… [+994 chars]
It seems that Mars could have a rather windy environment. Perseverance Rover's Scientific Instruments According to NASA, on Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover successfully landed on the Red P… [+3592 chars]
It's been nearly two years since the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the one-ton rover Perseverance left planet Earth and they've come a very long way since then. In February, last year, they landed in… [+14186 chars]
There's alcohol up in space. No, it's not bottles of wine discarded by careless astronauts; rather, it's in microscopic molecular form. Now researchers think they've discovered the largest alcohol mo… [+3626 chars]
On Monday (July 4), Earth celebrates Independence Day by getting as far away from the sun as possible — reaching what astronomers call aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT). At aphelion, Earth will be… [+1948 chars]
Image released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) shows the orbiter-returner combination of China's Chang'e-5 probe approaching the ascender. Photo: Xinhua NASA chief Bill Nelson has … [+5463 chars]
It's been nearly two years since the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the one-ton rover Perseverance left planet Earth and they've come a very long way since then. In February, last year, they landed in… [+14186 chars]
On June 28, NASA successfully launched the CAPSTONE project, which is the first step forward towards paving the way for the Artemis missions that will put astronauts back on the moon after a gap of 5… [+6585 chars]
