Miniverse will take you on a road trip through the solar system.
Given that there’s the entire universe to contend with, the solar system seems pretty tiny by comparison. But even though it’s but a small piece of the cosmos, our solar system still contains some...
Watch asteroid 2014 JO25 brush by Earth on 19 April
The 2.97-year orbit of Apollo asteroid 2014 JO25 is inclined by 25.2° to the ecliptic and it will miss our planet by just 4.57 lunar distances (1.09 million miles; 1.75 million kilometres) at...
Geoengineering Earth’s Atmosphere: How It Could Affect Astronomy
Potential large-scale solutions to combat the influence that humans have on Earth’s rising temperatures may directly affect astronomers. During one of the United States’ largest...
Hubble captures auroras on Uranus
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show two different observations about Uranus: one photo shows the ring and the other shows auroras. Auroras are light shows caused by electrically charged...
Possible Venus twin discovered around dim star
Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope have found a planet 219 light-years away that seems to be a close relative to Venus. This newly discovered world is only slightly larger than Earth...
Astronomers piece together first image of black hole
After training a network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii to Antarctica to Spain at the heart of our galaxy for five nights running, astronomers said Wednesday they may have snapped the...
These are the strangest oceans in our galaxy
We’ve found liquid water in lots of places in our solar system, but astronomers say there may be even stranger oceans out there, from charged plasma to sticky, gooey tar. Some of the oceans on this...
A cosmic 1st: Images of a black hole, and Astronomy Month 2017
GULF OF MEXICO — Greetings from at sea aboard the ms Oosterdam in the Gulf of Mexico. A cosmic first got underway this week: humanity’s attempt to image a black hole using the Event Horizon...
