Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2019
The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen
The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen
An international team of astrophysicists from the University of Surrey, Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zürich has found evidence that dark matter can be heated up and moved around, as a result of star formation in galaxies.
Yesterday, Jan. 7th, near-Earth asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past the Earth-Moon system only 2.8 million miles away.
That disastrous rock may now looks to have been a Beta Taurid passenger
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record.
A start-up wants a woman to deliver a child 250 miles above Earth. The first question: Why?
On the off chance that giant asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth—and Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck are unavailable—NASA is putting together a backup plan
New images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — taken from as close as 17,000 miles (27,000 km) on approach — revealed Ultima Thule as a contact binary.
We said hello to some spacecraft and good-bye to a few favorites
Mile-long rock shaped like water-loving pachyderm is rotating lazily through space under close watch by scientists who feared it could be on a collision course