Planets, Stars, rockets and Space

È una gigantesca e naturale macchina termica che funziona sulla differenza di calore fra zone diverse dell'atmosfera. La zona era stata già devastata nel 1999 uccidendo quarantuno persone

  A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, igniting an explosion so bright that anyone looking up at the right moment might have spotted it, NASA announced Friday.

A $15m computer that uses "quantum physics" effects to boost its speed is to be installed at a Nasa facility.

If Mercury was an orange, the juicy bit would all be dense metallic core, while planets further out would be peaches with pit-like cores – here's why

Filmed on the International Space Station with an acoustic guitar, Canadian astronaut marks end of stay in space with out of this world finale

By: Tariq Malik Published: 05/13/2013 06:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com The sun unleashed a colossal Mother's Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what has become the most powerful solar eruption of the year.

(Phys.org) —The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.

A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet?

Le scoperte sono due: da una parte siamo sempre più vicini a poter dire che la congettura del famoso matematico Goldbach è esatta; dall'altra abbiamo fatto un groppo passo in avanti nello studio dei numeri primi gemelli...

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year.

Three astronauts who spent nearly five months on board the International Space Station have made it safely back to Earth.

Il Sole mostra i muscoli e butta fuori dei potenti flares, lingue di gas infuocato grandi una decina di volte la nostra Terra, però per fortuna noi siamo per il momento dalla parte opposta

After only 4.5 million years (one-thousandth the age of the Sun), HD 192163 began its headlong rush toward a supernova catastrophe. First it expanded enormously to become a red giant and ejected its outer layers at about 20,000 miles per...

Joseph Farman, the man who helped identify the "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica, is dead.

La società olandese Mars One lancia il progetto per ch evuole andare a vivere sul Pianeta rosso. Gli italiani sono una decina, 18mila gli americani. C'è tempo fino al 31 agosto

“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.” So wrote Kurt Vonnegut in...

By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 05/08/2013 01:19 PM EDT on SPACE.com A never-before-seen interstellar network of gas between two nearby galaxies may provide the raw material needed to fuel star formation for billions of years, scientists say.