AAVSO Alert Notice 462 Monitoring of J1407 for next extrasolar ring system transit June 26, 2012 Dr. Eric Mamajek (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory and University of…
Read the articleSeeing is believing, except when you don’t believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an…
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Read the articleFor nearly 35 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling toward the edge of the solar system, flying through the dark void on a mission…
Read the articleProgress continues with Planetary Resources, the private syndicate that proposes to mine asteroids in the near future for rare metals. Here’s their latest communication: We’ve been…
Read the articleEighty-four female high school students from 29 states will plan a simulated mission to Mars and experience life as an engineer or scientist when NASA’s Johnson…
Read the articleESA’s Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe – dark energy and dark matter – reached an important milestone on June 20 that…
Read the articleTitan appears to be strung like a bead on Saturn’s rings, which cast shadows onto the southern hemisphere of the gas giant in this beautiful image…
Read the articleBlack holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations…
Read the articleESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous…
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