Space

How to spot the Comet NEOWISE (plus some background info on the comet itself)

How to spot the Comet NEOWISE (plus some background info on the comet itself)

Get ready for a once-in-an-every-6,000ish-years event. A lot of people have been snapping great pictures of the comet during the past few days. Комета NeoWise в небе моего города. В следующий раз вы можете её увидеть через 5000 лет …. pic.twitter.com/kWOEir4k7D — Petrov Dmitry (@dmivip08) July 17, 2020 Neowise Sunday evening over the Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy pic.twitter.com/Tbt9I3OP6n — Thierry Legault (@ThierryLegault)… Read more →

Liquid water may exist near the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter

Liquid water may exist near the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter

Interactive Europa graphic provided by NASA We may all be focused on finding liquid water on Mars, but some planetary scientists are looking for liquid water in some very – VERY! – remote places. A new study by Noah Hammond, a professor at Wheaton College, proposed that liquid water may be found near the surface of one of the moons… Read more →

Ask NASA: SpaceCast Weekly – Water in space

Your browser does not support the video tag. SpaceCast Weekly is a NASA Television broadcast from the Johnson Space Center in Houston featuring stories about NASA’s work in human spaceflight, including the International Space Station and its crews and scientific research activities, and the development of Orion and the Space Launch System, the next generation American spacecraft being built to… Read more →

Another near-Earth asteroid won’t be this close again until 2090

Back in 1998 NASA found this near-earth object. This asteroid is about the size of a small town – one to three kilometers wide. “The newly discovered [asteroid 1998 OR2 is] large enough to cause global effects if one impacted Earth,” Scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratories said in a statement in 1998. “[It is] classified as “potentially hazardous objects” because… Read more →

Despite tabloid reports, the "killer asteroid" isn't killing anyone

Despite tabloid reports, the “killer asteroid” isn’t killing anyone

Turns out that fear-mongering is still a thing on the internet. I know, I know… Big surprise! Tuesday an article started circulating – I’m not going to post a link, but I’m sure you can find it – suggesting that NASA was tracking a “killer” asteroid. Some outlets even called it a “Planet-killer”. A Planet killer?! Really? Sadly, these claims… Read more →