The Last Galactic Year Has Taken Us From the Jurassic Period to Today0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
The last time we were in this position in the Milky Way, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth.
The last time we were in this position in the Milky Way, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth.
Astronomers note record-breaking observation of highest energy ever measured from gamma ray bursts
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.
It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.
Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune. The planet’s innermost known satellite, Naiad, has a tilted orbit and it moves up-and-down relative to its neighboring moon, Thalassa.
Source: National Geographic Outside, the sinking sun is coloring the autumnal sky a brilliant lavender, a rich hue that lingers over a vast blanket of ice. Here, off the northern coast of Greenland, the Arctic Ocean is masquerading as land, a snowy patchwork of smooth ice floes and abrupt, jagged piles of crystalline debris. Only