The International Space Station appears to pass close to the Moon
This video was captured from Astronomy Now Headquarters in Tonbridge, Kent, in the UK, and shows the International Space Station appearing close to the waxing crescent Moon as it passed 405 km (252...
This scorching hot nightmare planet just opened up avenues for finding alien life
On the list of exoplanets that could hold life, GJ 1132b wouldn’t come near making the cut. It’s a super-Earth whose upper atmosphere reaches 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees Celcius), meaning it...
Astronomers just turned on a planet-size telescope to take a picture of a black hole
The closest astronomers have come to directly “seeing” a black hole happened last year, when the LIGO observatory detected the spacetime-warping gravitational waves radiatingfrom a pair of black...
Peggy Whitson breaks an ISS record
Peggy Whitson is adding more time to an already record-breaking mission after signing an agreement to stay on the International Space Station for an additional three months. Instead of coming back...
Get ready to view planet Jupiter at its best
On the evening of 10 April the Moon and largest planet Jupiter lie just 1½ degrees apart, so telescopes and binoculars employing magnifications of 30x or less will show the pair in the same field of...
New Horizons hit a milestone
It seems like just yesterday New Horizons was sending back images of Pluto after its groundbreaking fly by. Now, the spacecraft is getting closer to its new mission every day, and at midnight (UTC)...
Planetary scientists are turning up volcanoes everywhere they look
Our closest planetary neighbor shares a surprising feature with Earth: volcanoes. A new study, published February 1st in the journal Science Advances, revealed interesting new details about the...
Enter the artistic world of the cosmos with ArtScience Museum’s latest collaborative exhibition: The Universe and Art
Ah, the universe. It’s one of those concepts that transcends the ages, something we’ll never fully be able to comprehend in our limited time on Earth. What is within the cosmos? And what lies beyond...
