Geminids – the best meteor shower of the year – are about to grace the skies. Here’s everything you need to know.
- Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Percaya atau tidak, hal semacam ini pernah terjadi sebelumnya dalam sejarah Bumi – dan sekarang kita memiliki Bulan.
Believe it or not, this sort-of happened before in Earth’s history – and now we have the Moon.
The James Webb Space Telescope just released its first-ever exoplanet image. Here’s what’s so exciting about it, and what we can stand to learn.
Earth is moving through a bit of space where three streams of debris intersect with our orbit. These streams will give birth to the stars of this weekend’s show.
The unusual planetary system has a host star orbited by two giants. One has an incredible odd route around its star. And the other (unlike our own gas giants) is hellishly hot.
Could the Tau Herculid meteor shower put on a spectacular show next week? Only time will tell.
Each year, the Earth runs through a broad river of dust surrounding Comet Halley – giving birth to the spectacular Eta Aquariid meteor shower.
Bagaimana bintang-bintang bisa berkelap-kelip di langit malam? Ternyata, jawabannya penuh dengan udara panas… dan udara dingin.
Mungkin ada lebih dari satu juta planet di alam semesta untuk setiap butir pasir di Bumi. Itu banyak sekali planetnya. Dugaan saya adalah bahwa mungkin ada kehidupan di tempat lain di Semesta.
Jawaban singkatnya adalah ya, tetapi itu sangat, sangat sulit.
The reason bigger objects in space are round and smaller ones aren’t boils down to gravity. And it’s the same reason mountains on Earth can only grow to a certain height
Even if aliens exist, are intelligent like humans and interested in making contact with us, what are the chances they’ll be close enough for us to hear them screaming their presence into the cosmos?
According to Google Trends, Moon-related searches are up by more than 60% over the past week in Australia. We asked an expert in astrophysics to answer your Moon questions.
A poor start for meteor showers in 2021 but things get better with a possible spectacular surprise later in the year. Here’s your guide on when and where to look to catch nature’s fireworks.
Meteor telah dapat dilihat sejak dahulu kala. Meteor terdiri dari potongan puing-puing, biasanya tidak lebih besar dari butiran debu atau pasir, yang terus-menerus menabrak atmosfer bumi. Ketika puing-puing…
A small asteroid will cross Earth’s orbit on November 2. Scientists aren’t sure if the two will collide – but even if they do, there’s still no cause for alarm.
Leap years were devised in Julius Caesar’s time, to fix the pesky problem that Earth’s year isn’t exactly 365 days. But 15 centuries later, our calendars were still slightly askew.
A big year ahead for some of the meteor showers this year. Here’s your 2020 guide on when and where to look to catch nature’s fireworks.
Matt Agnew is on the hunt for love as star of the new Bachelor Australia series. But whoever he picks (and he already has, apparently) will have to compete with TESS. So who, or what, is TESS?
What’s the next ‘giant leap’ for humankind in space? We asked 3 space experts
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What's the next thing that will blow us away or bring us together the way the Moon landing did in 1969? Moon mining? Alien contact? Retirement on Mars? Three space experts share their predictions.
Just 12 people have walked on the Moon and they’ll know better than anyone just how big (or small) the place is. But we can make some comparisons with things on Earth to get a measure of the Moon.
The short answer is yes, but it’s really, really difficult.
Security cameras captured two separate fireballs over Australia this week. So what’s responsible these bright flashes?
Science is full of surprises. While searching for planets orbiting nearby stars, researchers stumbled across the remains of a star that once outshone the Sun.
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