NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.
READ MORENASA has stated that it’s quite likely that our solar system is home to a massive, distant ninth planet. Its existence could shed light on some burning questions about the cosmos.
READ MOREIn a distant part of space, astronomers have discovered the presence of Helium-3 being naturally produced.
READ MOREThe largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona – only about six miles from where Pluto itself was discovered at Lowell Observatory. They weren’t even looking for satellites of Pluto – Christy was trying to refine Pluto’s orbit around the Sun.
READ MOREWhitesburg resident Shaun Hammonds recently recorded a ‘soul-piercing’ howl coming from the forest.
READ MOREAstronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space—the first confirmed object from another star.
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