Hi, everyone, I’m Thomas Pesquet, and I’m with my favorite astronaut, Shane Kimbrough, up here on the space station. Today, we’re going to talk about a very cool new NASA mission called DART. Can...
In case there was an asteroid coming towards Earth and you’re there. You can actually stop it. I mean, that’s kind of fantastic. NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. What? You think...
♪It’s a shame, but livingin the city, very rarelydo you get to see stars. – I feel like I have anew connection to themin a way that Ihaven’t before. – If I’m out in...
The following video explains new findings about bright spots on Ceres. Namely, scientists have discovered that Ceres has more than 300 bright spots across the surface.
Using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii, scientists have detected an asteroid from another star on October 19 this year. After the interstellar asteroid made the closest fly by the Sun, they were able to...
This year, the Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak on December 13 and 14. This is certainly the best annual meteor shower that will be visible from December 7 until December 17.
This video captured the recent meteoroid shower above our planet from the International Space Station (ISS). The video is created by Paolo Nespoli on November 5, this year.
The following video gives us a short review of three meteor showers that are about to happen this month – Leonids, Sothern Taurids, and Northern Taurids. It also gives us useful and practical instructions...
A team of astronomers led by scientists from the Queen’s Belfast University has detected the first comet from interstellar space visiting our solar system. The comet is named A/2017 U1 and has an extreme...
This time of the year is a period when the Orionid meteor shower takes our views toward the night sky and the Orion constellation. This year, it will reach its peak activity between October...
The following video shows us an amazing view of the last meteor shower that happened on October 15. The video contains the pictures from 5 US countries where the fireball has been caught.
The following video gives us a short review about two coming meteor showers that will happen in late October. Namely, the Orionid meteor shower and the Southern Taurid meteor shower will reach the peak...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/ Submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft, scientists have detected Freon-40, the organohalogen that might support life. The compound has been discovered around a protostar and the Comet 67P/...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found that asteroid 288P is the strangest asteroid they have ever seen. Namely, they have confirmed that the object is actually a binary asteroid where two asteroids...
A new NASA’s radar image has revealed that asteroid Florence has two moons. The asteroid has passed by Earth between August 29 and September 1. It is 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) wide, while the...
The following time-lapse video shows the Milky Way and the Perseid meteor shower in the California’s night sky. Even though Perseids were not that numerous as the previous year, the view is still spectacular.
The following video shows us the bright fireballs from the annual Perseid meteor shower growing faster during previous five nights.
In the following month, there are two important space events waiting to happen. One of them is the Perseid meteor shower that will reach its peak on August 11, 12, and 13. After that,...
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