A Comet’s Brush With Mars
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars on Sunday, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.
In a dome on a Hawaiian volcano, NASA is financing a study to see how astronauts might deal with the stress and isolation of an interplanetary trip.
A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars on Sunday, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.
Large planets with surprisingly sharp orbital angles can exert gravitational forces on other planets, a new study reported.
Over thousands of years, humans have tried to represent the universe in graphic form, whether in manuscripts, paintings, prints, books or supercomputer simulations.
Evening viewers in much of Asia and early risers in parts of the Americas were treated to a stunning lunar eclipse on Wednesday, though clouds obscured it for some.
Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be the final step by which stars sink into oblivion.
A selection of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover as it drives toward Mount Sharp.
The sun is slowly rising over Saturn’s North Pole, exposing an immense six-sided hurricane. The storm, big enough to swallow four Earths, was first spotted by the Voyager missions in the early 1980s.
Comet Siding Spring will sweep past Mars in October, then follow other recent comets around the sun and back into deep space.
The demise of these lizards should make us question the ethics of animal research in space.