Growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s and '70s, one of my mentors in astronomy was Dr. Kenneth L. Franklin, Chairman and chief scientist at New York's Hayden Planetarium, who wrote about celestial… [+6219 chars]
Researchers at UCLA have discovered a new form of space weather superfast electron rains that precipitate into the atmosphere from the radiation belts. The team says the events could affect satellite… [+1664 chars]
Earth will be graced with a springtime planetary parade of five planets throughout April 2022. Astronomers will have multiple chances to spot Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus in the … [+3379 chars]
The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready to begin collecting science data continues, and the Webb team has met another goal with the alignment of three out of its four instrum… [+2246 chars]
The first most intense shower of shooting stars of the year and visible in Brazil will be that of the Lyrids or Lyrids meteors, at dawn on April 23, a Saturday. The Lyrid meteor shower takes place a… [+1644 chars]
Astronaut Matthias Maurer is pictured during a spacewalk on March 23, to install thermal gear and electronics components on the orbiting lab. Credit: NASA Four Expedition 67 astronauts, who have bee… [+1770 chars]
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Saturn’s famous rings will eventually disappear – and we have a good idea when. The stunning belts of ice, rock and dust are slowly breaking apart. And it’s believed that we’re just a few hundred m… [+4742 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) It plans to build an oxygen farm on the moon to help astronauts breathe in outer space. The agency has selected a winner to be the first to build a payload whose missi… [+2329 chars]
Saturn and Jupiter passed so close to each other in the sky in December 2020 that they almost collided. Now, in April, a planetary conjunction will put on a strikingly similar show, putting the two b… [+5265 chars]
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Illustration of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket launching with Orion atop it from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s modernized spaceport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA Before the Arte… [+6977 chars]
