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NASA will fire up the engines of its first Space Launch System megarocket today (Jan. 16) in a critical test for the agency's Artemis moon program. Here's how to watch it live.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited a debate about whether alien life can explain an object that visited the solar system in 2017 in a scathing new book.
Scientists think they've spotted the farthest galaxy in the universe Space 21/12/2020 Chelsea Gohd © Provided by Space The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed. The galaxy GN-z11 might not have a flashy name, but it appears to be the most distant and oldest galaxy ever detected, scientists have found. Astronomers led by Nobunari Kashikaw...
On This Day in Space! Dec. 15, 1612: Andromeda galaxy spotted by telescope for the 1st time Space 12/15/2020 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space The arms and core of the Andromeda Galaxy glow among a sea of multicolored stars in this deep-space photo captured from the Cumeada Observatory at the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal. On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy (also known as M31) is the closest major galaxy to our own Milky W...
See the moon's shadow on Earth from the 2020 total solar eclipse in these stunning satellite views Space 15/12/2020 Samantha Mathewson © Provided by Space The total solar eclipse of Dec. 14, 2020, as seen by NOAA's GOES-16 satellite. Skywatchers in southern South America were treated to a total solar eclipse on Monday (Dec. 14), and a weather satellite captured stunning views of the event from space. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) GOES-16 satellite watched as the moon's shadow danced across the Pacific Ocean, parts of Chile and Argentina an...