Space

Thermal Images Reveal Details About Jupiter's Great Red Spot

findings shows the most intense orange-red central part of the spot is about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:04pm

Rocket Booster For China's Tianhe Space Station Will Re-Enter Uncontrolled. Don't Worry About It.

a street. In much of North America we can worry more about death by heart disease than this. Criticize ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 5 2021 - 11:51pm

New Insights About The Origin Of Solar Wind

Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 10:19pm

Space Debris Expert Warns About Dangers of Orbital Junk

Schonberg took part in NRC’s committee that in 2011 issued a 180-page report warning about the dangers of ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 12 2015 - 1:01pm

How your thumb can teach you about astronomy...

What's the next closest star? I don't know about you but I sure don't have a ruler that long, ...

Blog Post - Maggie Nufer - May 12 2008 - 3:40pm

HD 142527 In Lupus The Wolf May Change How We Think About Planet Formation

formed in that region. This region is far from the central star, about 5 times larger than the distance ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2014 - 4:25pm

Fossil Radiation Is Probably Dust, So Doubts Remain About Gravitational Waves

The third chapter in the ongoing saga of the "first direct image of gravitational waves through the primordial sky" has been written. The first chapter was in March of last year when the BICEP2 team announced that it had observed the portion of c ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 1:04pm

IAU Planet Definition Has "Use Before Date"- Within Decades- Let's Call Pluto, Ceres & Our Moon Planets Right Now!