Baby Solar System Sprouts Galaxy-Like Arms
The disk exhibits a spiral structure — a feature that could solve a lingering mystery about how planets start to form.
The disk exhibits a spiral structure — a feature that could solve a lingering mystery about how planets start to form.
We pose that very question to the director of the International Institute of Space Law.
At 11:30 BST today, a spacecraft weighing over 2,000 kilograms with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 crashed gently into a comet’s surface, following 13 hours of free-fall. These, my friends, are the last, fleeting glimpses of Comet 67P that Rosetta managed to capture before its instruments went dead. See more >>
Today, Rosetta begins a controlled descent to its final resting place on the edge of an enormous pit. Here's how to follow along.
Even footballers in the Premier League would struggle.
There's not long to wait, either.
Could there really be a million people living on the Red Planet by the 2100s? Let's pick apart Musk's big claims.
1: Make South Park joke 2: Collect laughs 3: ??? 4: Profit!
But details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy.
While Mercury’s has no plate tectonics in the terrestrial sense, crustal shrinking still qualifies as tectonic activity. It could even trigger Mercury-quakes.
The show starts at 7:30pm. Pull up a chair and see what he has to say.
The discovery strengthens the case for a geothermally-heated, subsurface ocean.
The rocket engine destined for the Red Planet just fired-up for the first time.
After meeting with misadventure, a space probe from the Voyager mission crashes back to Earth, centuries after it left.
You had a good run Arecibo, but there’s a new big dog in town.
These images of deep space have revealed a brand new type of galaxy. Read More >>
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