On Valentines Day in 1990, NASAs Voyager 1 captured the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot image, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...
But after Voyager 1 finally snapped the photo from beyond the orbit of Neptune, it stored the image on its tape recorder and slowly beamed the information back to Earth's radio telescopes, pixel by ...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.
For the first time, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a payload in orbit using its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket.
Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.
Forget roses and chocolates-instead, feast your eyes on a celestial show and take in the beauty of the cosmos. This […] ...
Six planets are part of the alignment, which will last until Feb. 18. Mercury will join the alignment later in the month.