Recent months have featured a few stories about how Albert Einstein’s theories, or the ideas underpinning them, have all been confirmed to a new degree of accuracy. That’s usually the case: Scientists ...
The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite. Whether enjoying a lunar eclipse or observing the Moon’s surface, it has many fascinating features to explore.
This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.
Earth and Mars are constantly moving, but don’t stay a constant distance apart. Plus, spacecraft don’t travel in a straight line to their destination.
Visible in Scorpius before dawn, our waning satellite is close to the 3rd-magnitude star Pi (π) Scorpii and less than 8° from Antares, the Scorpion’s bright red heart. The Moon will pass 0.7° south of ...
Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high ...
Artemis 2 will use the SLS to send a crew of four aboard an Orion spacecraft on a 10-day mission looping within 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of the Moon. The crew consists of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot ...
A 12-ton rocket loaded with a 1-ton warhead, the V-2 ’s successful launch would prove to be exceptionally significant to both the military and to space exploration. On Oct. 3, 1942, the V-2 was fired ...
Our universe is filled with particles, such as electrons and protons, which make up all the stuff on our planet and beyond: animals, plants, people, planets, asteroids, stars, gas clouds, and galaxies ...
Asteroid 44 Nysa may be just past opposition, but it’s still placed perfectly for evening viewing in Cancer the Crab. Wait until a few hours after sunset, when Cancer is high in the eastern sky, and ...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life. Amino acids are the molecules ...