A second, smaller moon has been hanging around our planet for years
[embedded content] You’ll never guess who the moon brought home! A friend. Yes, the same solitary orb that has inspired countless poems and sighs and country songs about loneliness isn’t alone any more. There’s a tiny sidekick bobbing alongside him….
Astronomers just detected the largest explosion in our universe since the Big Bang
The closest thing to the Big Bang ever found in the universe was just detected in a galaxy 390 million light-years from Earth. It was such an energetic burst that it tore a massive cavity in the cluster plasma of…
NASA video reconstructs the harrowing lunar journey of Apollo 13
On April 15, 1970, NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 set a Guinness World Record for the highest absolute altitude attained by a crewed spacecraft at a distance of 248,655 miles from Earth. Nearly…
Looks like Earth has a new natural moon
Astronomers have announced that Earth has a new mini-moon, a small asteroid apparently captured into Earth orbit 3 years ago. It’s been designated 2020 CD3.
Marsquakes: InSight lander shows active faults in planetâs crust
The results from its NASA’s Mars InSight lander’s first 10 months on the martian surface have been published in a series of papers.
Pollux: The brighter twin star
Pollux, the brightest star in the constellation Gemini, blazes in a golden light next to its bluish-white heavenly twin, Castor, in the evening skies of the Northern Hemisphere’s spring.
Cosmic rays and Titanâs organic molecules
A new study from researchers in Tokyo helps explain how cosmic rays affect prebiotic organic chemistry in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Castor is six stars in one
The bright bluish-white star, Castor, in the constellation Gemini, appears to our eyes as a single star. But itâs actually a family of 6 stars.
Castor is six stars in one
The bright bluish-white star, Castor, in the constellation Gemini, appears to our eyes as a single star. But itâs actually a family of 6 stars.
Castor is six stars in one
The bright bluish-white star, Castor, in the constellation Gemini, appears to our eyes as a single star. But itâs actually a family of 6 stars.
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