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UFO Group Sharing Exotic Materials With Army for Combat Vehicles Travis J. Tritten, Bloomberg | October 21, 2019 Research delving into meta-materials of unknown origin Agreement signed Oct. 10 with group that published videos Published by To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science. Screenshot of...

A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Genna Duberstein; Music: Encompass by Mark Petrie What's that small black dot moving across the Sun? Mercury. Possibly the clearest view of Mercury crossing in front of the Sun in 2016 May was from Earth...

What’s the source of the ice at the moon’s south pole? Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | October 19, 2019 A new study from Brown University suggests that different deposits of ice at the moon’s south pole not only originated from different sources, but also vary greatly in age. Deep and...

Early this week, watch for the Orionids Guy Ottewell in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | October 20, 2019 Charts and insights about this week’s Orionid meteor shower from astronomer Guy Ottewell. Here is the Orionid meteor stream (dotted line) striking Earth Sunday night. Guy Ottewell – who made this...

Astronomy Picture of the Day 2019 October 19 Image Credit: NASA TV, Expedition 61 The failed unit was beyond the reach of the robotic Canadarm2. Therefore, this repair of the International Space Station would require humans. The humans on duty were NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch. This...

Watch 1st all-female spacewalk Eleanor Imster in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | October 16, 2019 Watch 2 NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) make history by performing the 1st ever all-female spacewalk on Friday. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir. Image via NASA...

New telescope to ‘see inside’ hot Jupiter exoplanets Paul Scott Anderson in SPACE | October 16, 2019 Exoplanets – worlds orbiting distant suns – are very, very far away. Astronomers are learning what some might look like, and what’s in their atmospheres. Soon – for the first time – a new...

Former NASA scientist says they found life on Mars in the 1970s Jessie Yeung, CNN | October 15, 2019 This is a mosaic comprising 102 Viking Orbiter images. (CNN) We may have already discovered the essence of life on Mars 40 years ago, according to a former NASA scientist. Gilbert V...

Best view yet of flickering jets in black hole feeding frenzy Astronomy Now Staff | 13 October 2019 Astronomers have captured high-speed camera views of crackling millisecond flashes of light generated by debris being pulled into a relatively nearby black hole, violent flicker-like bursts of...

Cosmic web fuels stars and supermassive black holes Deborah Byrd in SPACE | October 6, 2019 Astronomers probed the cosmic web, a large-scale structure composed of massive filaments of galaxies separated by giant voids. They found the filaments also contained significant amounts of gas, believed...

The UFO seekers flocking to a remote Thai hilltop in search of Buddhist aliens Richard S. Ehrlich, CNN | 5 October 2019 The Buddha statue portrays a mythical seven-headed "naga" snake. Richard S. Ehrlich Nakhon Sawan (CNN) — A hilltop in central Thailand is attracting UFO seekers who...

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Release | 10 October 2019 NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl Is this galaxy jumping through a giant ring of stars? Probably not. Although the precise dynamics behind...

The Crab Nebula was an exploding star Larry Sessions in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | CLUSTERS NEBULAE GALAXIES | October 5, 2019 The Crab Nebula, about 6,500 light-years from Earth, is the scattered fragments of a supernova, or exploding star, observed by earthly skywatchers in the year 1054. The...

The violent history of Andromeda, the big galaxy next door Deborah Byrd in SPACE | October 6, 2019 “The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about 4 billion years. So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy is up against is useful in finding out the Milky Way’s ultimate fate.”...

Juno prepares to jump Jupiter’s shadow Deborah Byrd in SPACE | October 3, 2019 NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has now successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver. It’ll keep Juno – a solar-powered spacecraft – out of a mission-ending shadow due to have been cast by Jupiter onto the...

Planet Nine may be a black hole the size of a baseball Jake Parks, Astronomy | Tuesday, October 01, 2019 A slew of oddly orbiting objects indicates a massive planet is hiding in the outer solar system. But one group of astronomers says it might be a tiny black hole instead. Tiny black...

Listen to the sounds of Mars Eleanor Imster in SPACE | October 3, 2019 Here are some of the noises picked up by NASA’s Insight spacecraft since it landed on Mars almost a year ago. NASA’s Mars InSight lander has had its ear to the ground since it arrived on the planet in November 2018. The...

International Observe the Moon Night is October 5 Gianluca Masi and Deborah Byrd in ASTRONOMY ESSENTIALS | HUMAN WORLD | October 2, 2019 International Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar science and exploration, celestial observation, and our cultural and personal...

When -- or if -- NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief says Scottie Andrew, CNN | September 30, 2019 NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green thinks news of life on Mars is coming soon, and the public isn't prepared to hear it. (CNN) NASA's next...