If you were alive and interested in astronomy then, you'll remember Supernova 1987A, the 1st supernova visible in Earth's skies since 1604. The new timelapse shows its aftermath over a 25-year period, 1992 to 2017.
A study released this past week reports that oceans absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought. The study estimates that for each of the past 25 years, oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually.
Venus has only now returned to the east before dawn. It's very low in the sky as dawn breaks. You just might be lucky enough to catch the moon and Venus before daybreak on the mornings of November 4-6, 2018.
Earth is not the only ocean world in the solar system. In fact, there are several. A new paper just published in Astrobiology seeks to plan out the best ways to explore these alien oceans.
One half of the W of Cassiopeia is more deeply notched than the other half. This deeper V is your "arrow" in the sky, pointing to the Andromeda galaxy.
The initial 45-day signaling period to the 14-year-old rover has ended. But NASA said this week it will continue trying to hail Opportunity. The rover has been silent since June, when a Mars dust storm swept over it.
Astronomers caught a glimpse of Phaethon - the bizarre blue asteroid responsible for the Geminid meteor shower - and found it even more enigmatic than they’d thought.