NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD mission launched at 5:20 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 25, as a commercially hosted payload on the SES-14 satellite.
Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have been successful and a full-power run is scheduled for March, officials said on Thursday.
MARS has been called the Planet of War.
Puzzled scientists expected the brightness to fade quickly
How an international team of researchers is constraining the speed of invisible and undetectable dark matter
Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says.
Saturn’s moon Titan may be nearly a billion miles away from Earth, but a recently published paper based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals a new way this distant world and our own are eerily similar.
Friday, January 19, 2018, 5:42 PM – Did you see the incredible meteor fireball that flashed across the sky over Windsor-Essex and southern Michigan on Tuesday night? Astronomers from Flint’s Longway Planetarium have actually found fragments meteorites from this bright bolide explosion!
Chris Packham, associate professor of physics and astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has collaborated on a new study that expands the scientific community’s understanding of black holes in our galaxy and the magnetic fields that surround them.
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT). At closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
