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The search for the sun’s lost siblings
Our sun's sibling stars could be scattered across the sky. Astronomers are sifting through newly released data in the GALAH Survey - a galactic archaeology survey - hoping to find them.
April 17, 2018
Scientists seeking continuous gravitational waves
Scientists 1st observed gravitational waves from merging black holes. Now they're targeting a different gravitational wave signal: a long continuous waveform from a rapidly spinning neutron star.
April 17, 2018
Asteroid buzzed Earth this weekend
2018 GE3 swept by at half the moon's distance Sunday, just hours after being detected. Its size is 3 to 6 times that of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
April 16, 2018
Theorists describe black hole megamergers
"Binary black holes are basically like giant targets hanging out in a globular star cluster, and as you throw other black holes or stars at them, they undergo these crazy chaotic encounters."
April 15, 2018
Watch launch of TESS planet-hunting mission April 16
TESS will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Lift-off is planned for no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT (10:32 p.m. UTC).
April 15, 2018
Flyover of Jupiter’s north pole in infrared
See what scientists saw this week at a meeting in Vienna. It's a 3-D fly-around of Jupiter's north pole, showing its central cyclone and the 8 smaller cyclones encircling it.
April 13, 2018
In infrared, Io appears alive with volcanos
The Juno spacecraft, now orbiting Jupiter, acquired this infrared image of the giant planet's moon Io. Each fiery dot is an active volcano.
April 13, 2018
Tour the moon in 4K
Take a virtual tour of the moon in all-new 4K resolution - Ultra High Def - created from data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
April 12, 2018
IAU approves names for Pluto’s moon Charon
NASA held a public naming contest in 2015, just before New Horizons' sweep past Pluto and Charon. The spacecraft mission team has used many of the Charon feature names since. Now the IAU gives the names the nod.
April 12, 2018
Cosmic gorilla effect could blind detection of aliens
Could it be that the more rational and methodical searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are overlooking "the gorilla in the room?" A new study suggests it's possible.
April 11, 2018
