A Splendor Seldom Seen0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2016
Until recently, we’ve never seen the planet Saturn from the dark side of it, but now Cassini has given us a beautiful sight of a back-lit Saturn.
Until recently, we’ve never seen the planet Saturn from the dark side of it, but now Cassini has given us a beautiful sight of a back-lit Saturn.
After traveling for 37 years, Voyager I is recording pulses from the sun that confirm it has entered a different region near the edge of the solar system called interstellar space.
The spacefaring nations of the world are competing with private companies to build an economy in orbit, colonize the moon, and exploit resources from passing asteroids, but to reach other planets something more is needed.
There’s a party in the galactic centre. We may have found the first solid evidence of a dense conference of stars around the Milky Way’s heart, which may one day help us observe the supermassive black hole living there.
“We now have technology to take ET home. No it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars.”
New close-up photos of Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, show its mysterious and massive dunes in more detail than ever before.
The New Horizons probe has uncovered another Plutonian mystery – this time involving the solar wind.
New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados has discovered 63 new quasars out in the deep reaches of space.
Proxima b is a planet that could be habitable, but we won’t know for sure until we can actually see it.
Having spent 230 days in space, a NASA astronaut is convinced that aliens are everywhere around us, and it would be arrogant to think otherwise.