The asteroid is roughly the same size as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. “It will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers),” from Earth on Oct. 12, 2017 according to NASA. Image-NASA via Space.com NASA scientists are excited about the upcoming close flyby of a small asteroid and plan to […]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of Phobos, one of the moons of Mars in orbit around the red planet. Image-NASA The sharp eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like in the Hubble pictures. Over […]
On Monday, August 21, 2017, our nation will be treated to a total eclipse of the sun. The eclipse will be visible — weather permitting — across all of North America. The whole continent will experience a partial eclipse lasting two to three hours. Halfway through the event, anyone within a 60 to 70 mile-wide […]
A University of Washington-led international team of astronomers has used data gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope to observe and confirm details of the outermost of seven exoplanets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1. They confirmed that the planet, TRAPPIST-1h, orbits its star every 18.77 days, is linked in its orbital path to its siblings and is […]