An observer in or near the path of totality for the April 8 solar eclipse, can make useful observations of the appearance of the moon’s shadow projected on the Earth’s…
Category: Space
New ‘Eclipse Watch’ tool shows eclipses from space any time
An eclipse-like image captured by the LASCO instrument on the SOHO spacecraft includes a picture of the moon added for scale. To see the latest image, visit https://eclipse.helioviewer.org/. Credit: NASA/Eclipse…
The 2024 total solar eclipse is 1 week away. Here’s what you need to know.
There’s only one week left until the total solar eclipse 2024 is visible across North America! Are you ready? Memories will be made when the moon crosses in front of…
Distant ‘space snowman’ unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become ‘ice bombs’
This image was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research…
Life on Enceladus? Europe eyes astrobiology mission to Saturn ocean moon
Europe could be heading to the Saturn moon Enceladus in search of life, according to a new report from planetary scientists who are masterminding a future large-class mission to the…
Curiosity rover searches for new clues about Mars’ ancient water
The steep path NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data. At lower right is the point…
1st Boeing Starliner astronauts are ready to launch to the ISS for NASA (exclusive)
HOUSTON — Two former U.S. Navy test pilots, now NASA astronauts, can’t wait to finally get their hands on a new spacecraft. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams told Space.com and…
Astronomers only knew of a single binary Cepheid system—they just found nine more
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods — RS Puppis, for example,…
NASA’s Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down ages of 1st asteroid targets
Last November, when NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it found the space rock was not one, not two but three rocks huddled together.…
