Remember Zoozve? The quasi-moon of Venus featured on Radiolab that was named after a typo on a map of the Solar System?
Now is your chance to name one of Earth’s quasi-moons. The IAU and Radiolab are holding a contest — they will pick the top 10 names, which then go to a popular vote.
Did you know that the SETI Institute and The Planetary Society have more in common than just a passion for the search for extraterrestrial life? Carl Sagan, one of The Planetary Society’s founders, based the main character of his famous book Contact on the SETI Institute’s founder, Jill Tarter. And we both love the search for life beyond Earth!
Près de 12 ans après être arrivé sur Mars, le rover Curiosity continue de nous émerveiller par ses découvertes !
Il a mis au jour de magnifiques cristaux il y a quelques jours en brisant un rocher avec une de ses roues. Ces cristaux pourraient être composés de gypse. 1/4
This morning, Boeing Starliner successfully launched to the ISS for its crewed flight test. Here's an overview of what happened, what the implications for this flight are, and what's next:
#PPOD: This detailed image came from Cassini's close encounter with Mimas, one of Saturn's moons. Mimas is less than 400 kilometers in diameter, creating ripples in Saturn's rings with its gravity. This disruption separates the A and B rings with the Cassini Division. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/ @kevinmgill
The group of astronomers at Atacama Photographic Observatory APO, formed by Thierry Demange, Richard Galli and Thomas Petit, has produced this image that mainly contains the dark clouds LDN 1453, LDN 1454, LDN 1457 and LDN 1458. The mystical cosmic landscape is located in direction to the dusty regions of molecular clouds located in the Aries Constellation. The..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts launches successfully from Florida.
CBS News reports: "The long-awaited flight marked the first launch of an Atlas 5 with astronauts aboard and the first for the Atlas family of rockets since astronaut Gordon Cooper took off just a few miles away on the Mercury program's final flight 61 years ago."