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Watch live: Russia's Pirs module set to depart space station today Russia's Progress MS-16 cargo freighter undocked from the space station at 6:55 a.m. EDT (1055 GMT) Monday as the outpost soared 260 miles (418 kilometers) over northern China. Instead of ...
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Steven Weinberg, Groundbreaking Nobelist in Physics, Dies at 88 Steven Weinberg, a theoretical physicist who discovered that two of the universe's forces are really the same, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, and who helped lay the foundation for the development of the Standard Model, a theory that classifies all ...
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Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza just flew (safely) by Earth On the other hand, 2008 GO20 is "potentially hazardous" because over time the gravitational tug of the planets could change the object's orbital path so that it crosses Earth's orbit. If that were to happen, a future collision with our planet is possible, NASA said.
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What Lies Underneath the Red Planet? InSight Lander Provides Crucial Details About Inner Structure of Mars Clouds drift over the dome-covered seismometer, known as SEIS, belonging to NASA's InSight lander, on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech).
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Why an Asteroid Strike Is Like a Pandemic Scientists identify a potential global threat, but initial data are spotty—not enough to spur drastic action. Rapidly, relentlessly, the threat metastasizes. What once was preventable becomes inevitable. The world has no choice but to endure the disaster at the cost ...
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Meteor lights up the night in Norway (CNN) An "unusually large" meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway. The meteor "lit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight," just ...
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Scientists Are Using a Balloon to Launch a Telescope (ASU is a partner with Slate and New America in Future Tense.) Sometimes, the simplest and cheapest solutions are best in a field where high-tech offerings can pose a significant chance of failure.
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Meteor wows Norway after blazing through night sky Norwegians have been left awestruck by a bright meteor that illuminated the night sky in the country's south-east. Footage shows powerful flashes of light over Norway, followed by what witnesses described as loud bangs on Sunday. Norwegian police say ...
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Find Perseid and Delta Aquariid radiant points Meteor showers have a radiant point, a point in the sky from which they appear to radiate. Image via Anton/ Wikimedia Commons. The Delta Aquariid meteor shower has a broad maximum, as opposed to a sharp peak in activity, and produces meteors ...
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Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs Are there intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations capable of building technologies that can travel between the stars? An international research project is poised to find out. The Galileo Project, helmed by a multi-institutional team of scientists led by Avi Loeb, ...
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