Venus and Jupiter will meet up in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) during a conclave of solar system record breakers, its hottest planet and its largest.
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The Mandalorian season 3 episode 1 review: a breezy set-up for things to come
The Mandalorian season 3 kicks off with 'The Apostate', a relaxed but fun episode full of familiar faces that sets up the next steps in Din Djarin and Grogu's journey.
Watch Venus and Jupiter come close to each other tonight and tomorrow in live webcasts
The Virtual Telescope Project will show the two planets meeting in the night sky on Wednesday (March 1) and Thursday (March 2). Here's how to watch.
Venus grade: NASA seeks a lander battery tough enough to survive Earth's evil twin
The surface of Venus is so extreme that even the best landers make it only a few hours before failing. NASA hopes a new type of battery will help.
March: The Winter Hexagon
As the Northern Hemisphere edges toward the March equinox and beyond, stargazers have an abundance of brilliant stars overhead as darkness falls. Anchoring the celestial parade is Orion, the Hunter. Download or listen to this month’s Sky Tour to learn about — and how to spot — the Winter Hexagon of big, beautiful winter stars.
Humanity has Never Seen the sky in the Longest Wavelengths. That Could Change With a new Space Telescope
Technological revolutions can bring about dramatic changes in various fields, some of which are only tangentially related to the field being disrupted. Occasionally, a few technological revolutions happen simultaneously, enabling concepts that would have been impossible without any of them. Such revolutions are currently happening in the space industry. With rockets more massive than ever coming online, and mega-constellations of satellites roaming our skies, there is plenty of disruption going on. Now a team from MIT hopes to use those technologies to look at an area of astronomy that has never been seen before – low-frequency radio astronomy.
How Cold is Space?
The average temperature of the universe is downright cold – right around 3 degrees above absolute zero.
Do Red Dwarfs Provide Enough Sunlight for Plants to Grow?
To date, 5,250 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,921 systems, with another 9,208 candidates awaiting confirmation. Of these, 195 planets have been identified as “terrestrial” (or “Earth-like“), meaning that they are similar in size, mass, and composition to Earth. Interestingly, many of these planets have been found orbiting within the circumsolar habitable zones (aka. “Goldilocks zone”) of M-type red dwarf stars. Examples include the closest exoplanet to the Solar System (Proxima b) and the seven-planet system of TRAPPIST-1.
China launches secretive Horus 1 remote-sensing satellite (video)
China sent a secretive remote-sensing satellite named Horus 1 to orbit on Friday night (Feb. 23) as the country begins to ramp up its launch activity.
Virgin Galactic's carrier plane flies back to New Mexico spaceport
On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations.
'Absolutely unreal:' NASA astronaut snaps amazing photo of auroras from space station
NASA astronaut Josh Cassada captured a stunning shot of green auroras dancing in Earth's skies from his vantage point on the International Space Station.
A Fresh Look at Kepler-444’s Ancient Planetary System
Astronomers have taken a closer look at a system containing three stars and five planets and may have solved a mystery around its formation.
Powerful solar storm delays SpaceX rocket launch, stalls oil rigs in Canada amid aurora-palooza
A solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs.
Speedrunning Star Formation in the Cygnus X Region
Stars are born in molecular clouds, massive clouds of hydrogen that can contain millions of stellar masses of material. But how do molecular clouds form? There are different theories and models of that process, but the cloud formation is difficult to observe.
JAXA selects 2 new astronaut candidates for future flights to the moon
Japan has selected its first new astronaut candidates in more than 13 years. Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda were chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Record breakers! Super-close dwarf stars orbit each other in less than a day
Two ultra-cool dwarf stars in a binary system are so tight they're breaking records. The stars are so close that they orbit each other in less than a day.
Private Japanese lander sets distance record on its way to the moon
The Hakuto-R moon lander got 855,000 miles (1.376 million kilometers) from Earth on Jan. 20, farther than any other fully commercial spacecraft.
4 big asteroids are flying by Earth this week, but don't worry. They aren't getting too close.
A quartet of large asteroids are zooming by Earth this week, but they'll all pass our planet with millions of miles to spare, according to NASA.
Venus has a squishy shell that might be key to its youthful look
Earth's next-door neighbor Venus may have a "squishy" outer shell that gives the planet a "youthful" appearance and may reveal how it loses its interior heat, studies reveal.
Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres
Astronomers interpret the spectra of 10 well-known dark asteroids and find them to be water-rich like the dwarf planet Ceres.
Great telescope Deal: The Celestron Travelscope 60 is under $40
You read that right, you can get the Celestron Travelscope 60 portable telescope for under $40 now, saving over $60 in doing so.
