New Mars images explore into the depths of the Red Planet’s Valles Marineris canyon, the solar system’s largest canyon system. The images taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) using the spacecraft’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) also show incredible … Read More
It’s been a cloudy season for Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Titan is an strange world, resembling Earth if the land was made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere was … Read More
Wolf Cukier, a junior at Scarsdale High School in New York, got a two-month internship with NASA during his junior year. So he went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His first task was to investigate fluctuations … Read More
NASA continues to outdo itself with the magnificent images of space that it releases – but even by NASA’s high standards, a 12-year timelapse of the entire night sky is an impressive achievement. The images were taken by the NEOWISE … Read More
Data obtained by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team over the last two weeks show that the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This is the first time humanity has purposely … Read More
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”– Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980) This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious signal captured with China’s “Sky Eye” telescope that might be a transmission from alien technology. An article reporting the signal was posted on … Read More