Space
Reports of a “spectacular UFO” – a giant ball of light – in the skies of Siberia
The illuminated ball of light was seen by countless residents of the Yamalo-Nenets region in Siberia, Russia, last week, prompting cries of “aliens arriving”. As freaky spherical shapes in the sky tend to make people do, there were numerous theories and pronouncements...
10 Scary Yet Beautiful Facts About Space And Us
Here are 10 out-of-this-world facts about space and about us.
NASA Finds Unusual Origins of High-Energy Electrons
High above the surface, Earth’s magnetic field constantly deflects incoming supersonic particles from the sun. These particles are disturbed in regions just outside of Earth’s magnetic field – and some are reflected into a turbulent region called the foreshock.
The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum
What if there is a way to destroy the universe so fundamentally that life as we know it will be impossible forever?
James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors Will Piece Together Cosmic Puzzles
The primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope consisting of 18 hexagonal mirrors looks like a giant puzzle piece standing in the massive clean room of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Appropriately, combined with the rest of the observatory, the mirrors will help piece together puzzles scientists have been trying to solve throughout the cosmos.
Changing Colors in Saturn’s North
These two natural color images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn’s north polar region between 2012 and 2016.
A Dying Star Shooting Gigantic Balls Of Plasma Twice the Size of Mars
The NASA’s space telescope captured images of plasma ‘cannonballs’.
4 Astronomical Events You Don’t Want to Miss in November
Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then. A new study led by University of Idaho researchers suggests there could be two tiny, previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near two of the planet’s rings.
How Long You Can Survive On Each Planet
We know how long a human being could survive on a summer day on Mars without a spacesuit. But what about the other planets in our solar system?