Clik here to view.
The Taurids meteor shower sends fireballs streaking across the sky this week....
The Taurids meteor shower streaks across the sky this week, with fireballs that can look brighter than Venus.The Northern and Southern Taurids coincide to produce five to 10 meteors each hour.This week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A NASA scientist's incredible animation shows how dinosaurs roamed the Earth...
NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen made a video that traces our solar system's movement through the Milky Way as dinosaurs emerged, went extinct, and were replaced by mammals on Earth.Our sun orbits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bill Gates isn't interested in space exploration and doesn't like Elizabeth...
Bill Gates had a wide-ranging discussion with The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Conference in New York City on November 7.When asked if he shared Jeff Bezos' interest in space,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When the Andromeda galaxy crashes into the Milky Way, this is what it could...
The Milky Way is on track to collide and merge with its nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in about 4 billion years.The galaxies will pass through each other, get snapped back together by gravity,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You can still see the divide between West and East Berlin from space
In some ways, Berlin is still divided 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Seen from space, the city's lights show a stark contrast, with orange lights in the east and white lights in the west....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mercury is about to travel across the sun for the last time until 2032....
Mercury will glide across our view of the sun on November 11. The transit won't happen again until 2032. To watch, you'll need a telescope or binoculars equipped with a certified solar filter to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Luxury hotels could be launched into Earth's orbit as early as 2021. This is...
Luxury hotels in space could launch as early as 2021 and start accepting guests by 2022, some developers say.NASA's search for space habitats has been driving innovation in space habitat design.Some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new...
Director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbuster "Interstellar" just celebrated its fifth anniversary.In the movie, Matthew McConaughey plays an astronaut who journeys into a supermassive black hole...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon....
Two animations by an amateur astronomer show the stunning view from Earth if the other planets in our solar system replaced the moon.But the videos— one set at night and one during the day — don't...
View ArticleWhat if the Earth stopped orbiting the Sun?
It's a natural cycle: the Earth orbits the sun. But what if something catastrophic happened and we were knocked out of orbit?The sun's gravity would quickly take hold of Earth and we'd go flying...
View ArticleHere's what you're actually seeing when you spot a meteor shower
Meteor showers like the Perseids in August and the Leonids in November are brilliant cosmic light shows we can count on year after year.The Leonids meteor shower peaks early Monday morning.The reason...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Leonids meteor shower will send bright green shooting stars across the...
The Leonids meteor shower peaks this weekend and early next week, with about 15 meteors streaking across the night sky every hour.The waning gibbous moon will be bright, but you can still catch some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A handful of new telescopes are about to transform the hunt for alien life...
NASA and other space agencies are building a handful of telescopes that are likely to change our understanding of the universe.From vantage points on Earth and in space, these telescopes will peer...
View ArticleNASA astronaut rates space movies based on how realistic they are
Hollywood loves its space movies, but how well do they nail the actual science?NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, former director of space operations at SpaceX, rates 10 iconic scenes from space movies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scientists recorded the sound of Earth's magnetic field during a solar storm...
Earth's molten, rotating inner core generates a magnetic field around the planet.This magnetic field, or magnetosphere, protects us from solar winds and radiation.The European Space Agency just...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scientists detected the brightest light in the universe for the first time,...
Scientists have detected the brightest, most energetic light in the universe for the first time: Telescopes captured two violent space explosions called gamma-ray bursts.Astronomers acted quickly to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a...
In the sci-fi series "Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drives.The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Credit Suisse says investors should buy Virgin Galactic because of its...
Credit Suisse is recommending investors buy shares in the newly public space tourism company Virgin Galactic. The firm's analysts initiated coverage of the company on Thursday with and "outperform"...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A self-declared space nation called Asgardia is planning a fully functioning...
Asgardia is a non-governmental organization that wants to become the first kingdom and nation-state in space.On Saturday, the group's 150 elected representatives met for Asgardia's first parliamentary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image...
Astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, and many other scientists made mind-boggling breakthroughs in 2019.Some highlights include work that produced the first image of a black hole, traced the...
View Article