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A stadium-sized asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched.Asteroid 2008 OS7 passed by Earth on Feb. 2, 2024 at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers), about 7.5 times farther than the...
Back to Article List Astronomy’s travel partner, Eclipse Traveler, is offering another great adventure in Turkey for August 2024. A stunning long-exposure photograph of the Perseid meteors 2023. The vertical Milky Way gives off the illusion that the inactive...
In a recent announcement, the Chinese Space Agency (CSA) unveiled the names for its forthcoming lunar mission components. The CSA have been working towards sending humans to the Moon through a series of robotic missions. The 22-tonne capsule that is taking the...
Space Safety 26/02/2024 521 views 9 likes ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence is being prepared for a journey to the distant asteroid moon Dimorphos orbiting around its parent body Didymos. One of the first features Hera will look for is the crater left...
The company that pulled off the first American moon landing in more than half a century just got a shout-out from the country's commander in chief.U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Intuitive Machines on the historic touchdown of its Odysseus moon lander,...
Back to Article List If Earth let all its extra quarter days add up, we’d quickly be celebrating the 4th of July when it’s snowing. Earth, as seen from space. Credit: NASA. Happy leap year! Feb. 29, 2024, is leap day and marks an ongoing, longstanding...
Japan’s space agency didn’t expect its wrong-side-up SLIM moon lander to revive itself after powering down for a circuit-chilling lunar night on Feb. 1. But that’s exactly what happened. “Last night, a command was sent to SLIM and a response received,...
This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image from October 2023 captures the plains of northern India and Pakistan under a white veil of haze and smoke.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Most of the plains at the...
Fresh aurora pictures from a NASA astronaut is making us green with envy.Earlier this month, International Space Station astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli captured absolutely stunning pictures of a flag-like green aurora stretching from the southern regions of the...
Back to Article List Here's our classic step-by-step guide to make a pinhole viewer with a cardboard box. OK, you want to view the Sun or an eclipse, but you don’t have an approved solar filter for your telescope. Maybe you don’t even have a telescope. No...