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Deborah Byrd
Venus returns to evening sky
If you're looking for Venus now - the brightest planet - you won't find it with the eye alone. But it's possible to catch the planet in September 2019, near the sunset, with a telescope.
September 8, 2019
India’s moon mission: “95% of mission objectives accomplished”
Saturday's heartbreaking loss of contact with the Vikram lander - part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon - hasn't changed the upbeat tone of India's space science. Here's what we know so far.
September 7, 2019
Contact with India moon lander lost, moments before touchdown
The Vikram lander was to have made India the 4th nation of Earth to soft land on the moon. Contact with it was lost just 1.3 miles (2.1 km) above the moon's surface.
September 7, 2019
Ka-bam! Signs of a giant impact with Jupiter
Scientists used Juno spacecraft data and models of how Jupiter's inner core should look to probe the giant planet's early history. They now think an object with 10 times Earth's mass might have struck Jupiter billions of years ago.
September 5, 2019
Hurricane Dorian viewed from space
NASA astronaut Christian Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Monday, September 2, 2019. The station orbits more than 200 miles (300 km) above Earth.
September 2, 2019
Webb telescope now assembled for 1st time
On August 28, 2019, NASA announced that the 2 halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have now been successfully connected. The telescope is being assembled at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California.
September 2, 2019
Year’s closest new supermoon August 30
Today - August 30, 2019 - presents the closest new moon of the year, exactly a fortnight (about 2 weeks) before the year's farthest and smallest full moon on September 14, 2019.
August 30, 2019
Gaia tracks sibling stars in Milky Way
Rather than leaving home young, as expected, star siblings are more likely to stick together in long-lasting, string-like star groups, according to a new study of data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft.
August 29, 2019
Before dawn, Orion the Hunter
By late August and early September, the constellation Orion is rising in the hours after midnight and is well up by dawn. It'll continue to rise earlier … and earlier.
August 29, 2019
Arecibo gets $19M grant to find and study NEOs
NEOs are near-Earth objects, asteroids and small comets that sweep near Earth and have the potential to cause harm. Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has, since the 1990s, been finding about 60 to 120 of these objects every year.
August 28, 2019
