It’s finally official, Voyager 1 spacecraft is now in interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is now about 19 billion kilometers (12 billion miles) from our Sun traveling at a speed of about 61 155 km/h (38 000 mph).
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A 230 kilometers wide asteroid 324 Bamberga is making a relatively close flyby to our planet this week. It will reach opposition in the constellation Pisces on Friday, September 13, 2013 at 16:00 UTC and at that time will be 0.81 astronomical units
Last month NASA released new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images depict crew operations including the Orion spacecraft's trip to and rendezvous with the
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) was successfully launched on September 6, 2013 and has separated from its ride into space, powered up and is communicating with ground controllers. It is now on its way to arrive at the Moon in 30
Thousands of never-before-seen data products from the US Landsat satellites acquired over 30 years have been released for online access. In addition, the newest data over Europe from the latest satellite in the series, Landsat-8, are now accessible in near-real time
A lunar night launch, Comet ISON is spotted again, and the moon meets up with Saturn, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
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A meteor with estimated mass of over 50 kg exploded over Tennessee, US, around 07:27 UTC on August 28, 2013 (02:27 local time). Head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, Bill Cook, said the fireball reached a peak magnitude of -13. It was brighter than a full
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos. The first batch of data from the black-hole hunting telescope was made publicly available on August 29,
Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have taken a major step in explaining why material around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is extraordinarily faint in X-rays. This discovery holds important implications for understanding
Examining lunar crater Bullialdus scientists have detected water on the Moon's surface that originates from deep within the Moon's interior – magmatic water.
The discovery represents an exciting contribution to the rapidly changing understanding
