Named after a capricious goddess, Juno lives up to her name.
First artwork to be made in space is now orbiting above all our heads
“A laugh star floating in space, above all our heads, is my attempt to create a contemporary metaphor for the hanging ‘Sword of Damocles,’ a reminder that the beauty of human life is so fragile.”
A new model to explain the Moon’s weird orbit suggests a much more violent genesis
It doesn’t answer everything — but it’s a good point to start from.
Too big to orbit: Jupiter is so massive it doesn’t actually orbit the Sun
They actually take one another for a spin.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft sends back first color image of Jupiter from orbit
The image captures the gas giant and its surroundings in amazing detail.
New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star they’re orbiting. Their findings help cover a previously uncharted gap in planetary populations, and offers valuable insight for locating new worlds to colonize.
Water detected in a planet outside our solar system
Astronomers have recently discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, using a novel technique – they believe that this new method could reveal more and more planets which feature water; so far, all life as we know it, is based on water. They made their discovery on a Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting the nearby
Extrasolar hot Jupiter sheds some light on our own solar system
Since 1995, over 500 planets that don’t orbit our Sun have been discovered, with the numbers increasing more and more in the past years. But only recently did astrophysicists observe that in some of these cases, the star seems to be spinning in one direction, and the planet orbits it in the totally opposite direction – totally counterintuitive and against
Messenger succesfully enters Mercury orbit
As reported earlier on Thursday morning, the Messenger NASA spacecraft was scheduled for an evening jump into Mercury’s orbit through a tricky maneuver which involved a “burn” – essentially “riding its brakes” by firing its main thruster – to slow the spacecraft enough to be captured by Mercury’s gravity. At 8:45 p.m. ET, the procedure was commenced. At 9:10 p.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery heads home after final mission
When launched in 1984, Discovery was top notch; it was the best available around, and only the third operational orbiter; now, after 3 flights, over five thousand orbits and no less than 365 days spent in space, during which it traveled 150 million miles Discovery left the International Space Station (ISS) for the last time; it is still, for a