In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft to probe the outer reaches of our solar system. The space agency was still in its infancy then. But with the triumph of the Apollo Moon landings just ...
Yesterday, the four-person Artemis 2 crew completed the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972, passing within roughly 4,067 miles of the lunar surface before turning back toward Earth. The ...
Four astronauts have flown around the Moon today, the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. The seven-hour flyby took them farther from Earth than any humans in history — roughly 252,000 ...
Before wrapping up their first flight day, the crew of Artemis 2 pulled off another feat of NASA in-flight troubleshooting: fixing their broken toilet. It might not rank as NASA’s no. 1 triumph, or ...
The crew was overcome with emotion as they nominated the name Carroll for a crater "in a bright spot on the Moon." ...
The brilliant planet Jupiter dazzles anyone with a clear sky. Roman observers named Jupiter after the patron deity of the Roman state following Greek mythology, which associated it with the supreme ...
Europa, now having reached the far western end of its orbit and heading back toward the planet, disappears in an occultation behind the disk of Jupiter at 11:30 P.M. EDT. If you can, get your ...
In 1958, a newly minted Harvard Ph. D. named Frank Drake came to Green Bank. Usually he sought out typical radio astronomy targets — the Van Allen Belts around Earth, say, or the surface temperature ...
In 1959, having determined that military test pilots would make the best astronauts, NASA began screening the records of 508 candidates. From there the group was narrowed to 110 men who went through ...
Billions of years ago, an enormous space rock struck Mars and excavated a 750-mile-wide (1,200 kilometers) crater now called the Isidis impact basin. But the cosmos wasn’t done yet. Another smaller ...
Moonless spring evening skies are great for galaxy hunting. Leo is well known for its trio of bright galaxies (M65, M66, and NGC 3628), but the Lion has many more extragalactic targets to offer as ...
April 5: Your last glimpse of Comet Wierzchoś? The Moon passes 0.6° south of Antares at 4 P.M. EDT on April 6, with the two visible together in the early-morning sky prior to the passage. Look south ...
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