Hubble confirms the existence of the world’s largest comet nucleus!
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed the size of the largest icy comet nucleus ever observed by astronomers. It has an estimated diameter of 80 miles, making it larger than….
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is almost ready for launch on an asteroid mission
The US space agency recently welcomed journalists to examine its psyche spacecraft at JPL. Psyche will be on an asteroid orbit. On Monday, April 11, members of the media were….
One-time planetary alignment is about to take place; Here’s how to watch it:
From the Northern Hemisphere, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter will all be in near-perfect planetary alignment in the sky before sunrise from the middle of the month. The alignment will….
US government confirms first interstellar object to collide with Earth
A recent memo, released by the United States Space Command, showed a fireball that flashed across the sky over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was actually a fast-moving object from….
NASA publishes a new Hubble image of a twinkling hotbed of star factories!
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is the source of some of the most fascinating and stunning images of space available on the Internet. The NASA Hubble Telescope posted a sparkling image….
Keep your Windows closed! A sun-induced geomagnetic storm is underway
A coronal mass ejection has pushed high-intensity plasma and radiation into the inner planets of our solar system’s brightest star, the sun. On Wednesday and Thursday, the coronal mass ejection….
Astronauts from Axiom Space float into the ISS after a dramatic docking! – Watch
NASA and Axiom Space teamed up on April 9 to send four commercial astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). They have successfully completed the first step of what is….
Hubble Space Telescope reveals a majestic serpentine spiral 80 million light-years away!
This galaxy is about 80 million light-years from Earth and has a conspicuous bar, a central linear band of stars, similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Rods can be….
Hubble reveals extreme weather on ultra-hot Jupiters: vaporized rock rain and more
Hubble astronomers studying ultra-hot Jupiters have uncovered evidence of strange weather conditions on the blazing hot planets. Jupiter-sized planets are so close to their parent star that they are roasted….
Fermi inspects gravitational waves through monstrous black holes
Astronomers believe that waves of supermassive black holes orbiting Earth in distant galaxies are light-years long and have been trying to observe them for decades. NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope….