A New Year message from the edge of the solar system0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 18, 2018
On 1 January 2019 the New Horizons probe will begin transmitting data from Ultima Thule, 4bn miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt. What will it find?
On 1 January 2019 the New Horizons probe will begin transmitting data from Ultima Thule, 4bn miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt. What will it find?
The spaceplane reached an altitude of 51.4 miles.
Take a peek at asteroid Bennu: porous, blue, and with a water-rich parent body.
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.
After painstakingly swiveling the camera mounted on its robotic arm for a week, NASA’s InSight spacecraft, which landed last month on Mars, has completed its first photographic survey—of the sand-filled crater surrounding it and of itself, NASA announced today.
Until this precise moment in his nearly decade-long career, Stephen Curry has remained gleefully free of controversy. His Twitter profile includes a scriptural reference and also a hat tip to a spouse who has never appeared on “Basketball Wives.” His news conferences — essentially analyses of how he crushes the championship dreams of his NBA
Scientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA’s Juno probe reached the solar system’s largest planet last July, they’ve found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.
China is going where no one has gone before–the farside of the Moon. At 2:23 am on Dec. 8th (local time in Sichuan province), a Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, propelling a lander and rover toward the lunar farside. Zhou Kun photographed the launch: “I took the picture only
VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, near the apogee of its third powered flight July 26. Credit: Virgin Galactic
Ceres offers insight into the synthesis, transport of organic matter in the inner solar system