That Mountain-Sized Asteroid That Flew By Earth On Monday Has A Tiny Little Moon
At 11:19 a.m. ET, Jan. 26, Earth had a close encounter with an asteroid, called 2004 BL86.NASA scientists knew it was coming but as the large space rock approached, they saw something they did not...
View ArticleNASA Just Released The Best Images Of A Dwarf Planet We've Ever Seen
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft will be the first time that humans visit a dwarf planet in the outer solar system — the spacecraft is set to arrive in early March.On its journey Dawn is snapping pictures of the...
View ArticleA Supermassive Black Hole Has Mysteriously Powered Down
Last week, astronomers at Yale University reported seeing something unusual: a seemingly stedfast beacon from the far reaches of the Universe went quiet.This relic light source, a quasar located in the...
View ArticleElon Musk's Appearance On 'The Simpsons' Reminds Us How Insane — And...
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX and the electric car company Tesla, made a guest appearance on The Simpsons on Monday.While the episode, titled "The Musk Who...
View ArticleThese Mind-Blowing New Images From NASA Reveal The Invisible Universe
In honor of the United Nations' marking 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, NASA has released a series of stunning new images of the cosmos.The mind-blowing images...
View ArticleSpaceX Reveals Stunning Video Showing Its Totally Futuristic New Rockets
Yesterday, SpaceX released an animated video of its new Falcon Heavy rocket that, if all goes according to plan, will eventually be able to launch a manned spacecraft into space and then touch back...
View ArticleTelescopes Discover An Exoplanet With Rings 200 Times Bigger Than Saturn's
A young exoplanet called J1407b has a gigantic ring system that’s much heavier and about 200 times larger than the rings of Saturn.Astronomers discovered the giant planet or possibly a brown dwarf...
View ArticleNASA Has Plans To Fly A Helicopter On Mars
Driving a rover on Mars is useful for studying the planet's rock chemistry and hunting for ancient life, but none of the rovers we've sent to the Red Planet have traveled very far. That's because the...
View ArticleA 1,100-Ft Wide Asteroid And Its Orbiting Moon Just Zoomed Past Earth
An asteroid that came within about 745,000 miles of Earth on January 26 appears to travel with its own moon.This video originally appeared on Slate Video. Watch More: slate.com/videoJim Festante is an...
View ArticlePhysicists Have Built A Time Machine Simulator
Suppose you traveled back in time and stopped your grandparents from ever meeting.This would create a paradox since you never would have been born if your grandparents never met. You've prevented your...
View ArticleYou can put 1 million Earths in the volume of the Sun — here's what that...
Anyone who says that size doesn't matter should take a look at this: One million Earths: A visual representation of how many Earths could fit inside the sun pic.twitter.com/Eq3qpl7Log— Mike Whitmore...
View ArticleThe most exciting astronomical discovery of 2014 was just proven wrong
It is the announcement no one wanted to hear: The most exciting astronomical discovery of 2014 has vanished. Two groups of scientists announced today (Jan. 30) that a tantalizing signal — which some...
View ArticleNASA just blasted a satellite into space to track climate change
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 2 rocket lifted off from California on Saturday carrying a NASA satellite to measure how much water is in Earth’s soil, information that will help...
View ArticleAmateur astronomers found these mysterious yellow balls in deep space
Clumps of strange yellow balls have been showing up in several images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and a group of volunteers were the first to spot them after combing through thousands...
View ArticleNASA is building this monster rocket to shuttle astronauts to Mars
Right now, NASA is constructing a monster rocket, called the Space Launch System, that will be the most powerful rocket ever built.This rocket is designed for NASA's future deep-space missions. It will...
View ArticleThese are the awesomely nerdy names Elon Musk chose for his rocket-catching...
SpaceX wants to be able to land the reusable parts of its Falcon 9 rockets on floating drone ships at sea, and the recently released names of the ships appear to be a tribute to a classic science...
View ArticleWill humans ever escape our solar system?
Imagine a time when humans, having spent decades exploring the solar system through landings on Venus and Mars; passages by the largest asteroids; close-up surveys of Jupiter and its giant moons;...
View ArticleNASA just announced it'll be visiting this beautiful moon for the first time
The hunt for extraterrestrial life just grew a little hotter.On Monday, during his State of NASA speech, administrator Charles Bolden announced that NASA would be selecting projects to accompany a...
View ArticleThe US is starting to regulate business on the moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The United States government has taken a new, though preliminary, step to encourage commercial development of the moon.According to documents obtained by Reuters, U.S....
View Article3 ways the universe might end
Eventually, billions or even trillions of years from now, the universe is going to end.Astrophysicists don't know exactly how the universe will end, but they have some ideas. A group from Munich called...
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