A Chinese Long March 2D rocket lifts off with the Shiyan 13 satellite. Credit: CASC
China launched a Long March 2D rocket Monday with another classified satellite, deploying the spacecraft into a polar orbit on the first of more than 40 Chinese Long March rocket missions planned in 2022.
The Alan Hills meteorite is a part of history to Mars aficionados. It came from Mars and meteorite hunters discovered in Antarctica in 1984. Scientists think it’s one of the oldest chunks of rock to come from Mars and make it to Earth.
In the past three decades, the field of extrasolar planet studies has advanced by leaps and bounds. To date, 4,903 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,677 planetary systems, with another 8,414 candidates awaiting confirmation. The diverse nature of these planets, ranging from Super-Jupiters and Super-Earths to Mini-Neptunes and Water Worlds, has raised many questions about the nature of planet formation and evolution. A rather important question is the role and commonality of natural satellites, aka. “exomoons.”
When it comes to observing protoplanetary disks, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) is probably the champion. ALMA was the first telescope to peer inside the almost inscrutable protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars and watch planets forming. ALMA advanced our understanding of the planet-forming process, though our knowledge of the entire process is still in its infancy.
This week’s apparition of asteroid 1994 PC1 offers observers a chance to see a space rock moving in real time.
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 49 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
A satellite image captured by Landsat 8 shows Mount Vesuvius "peering" through an eerily circular hole in the clouds.
The aurorae are also known as the northern and southern lights. They appear in the sky at extreme latitudes, and they are caused by charged particles from the Sun slamming into our atmosphere.
Artificial satellites from Earth have only populated space since 1957, but there are now hundreds of thousands of objects from our planet in orbit.
Axiom Space plans to operate its own space station in low Earth orbit in the coming years, and it has inked deals with SpaceX to fly multiple tourist missions to the International Space Station.
Rocky surfaces and molten cores are what the four inner planets of the solar system have in common
A unique mission concept known as Interstellar Probe would venture beyond the solar system and probe our neighborhood environment.
Welcome back to Messier Monday! Today, we continue in our tribute to our dear friend, Tammy Plotner, by looking at the barred spiral galaxy known as Messier 95!
Scientists observed changes in the signals coming from rapidly-spinning stars called pulsars that might point to the existence of subtle space-time ripples vibrating throughout the entire universe.
We explore some of the best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time including nebulas, galaxies, planets and more!
Scientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.
A SpaceX rocket will launch a new fleet of the company's Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (Jan. 17) and you can watch it live online.
The full Wolf Moon rises tonight (Jan. 17) at 6:48 p.m. EST (1148 GMT), marking the first full moon of the New Year.
Watch live: our start-of-year press conference looking ahead at 2022, with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Directors, from 10:00 CET on 18 January.
A serious 70-200mm for anyone who demands the best image quality and is willing to pay. It’s worth every cent.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are connecting straight to Europe at light speed, thanks to the European Data Relay System.
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