asteroids

Microsoft is pushing the envelope once again—this time by blurring the line between space exploration and conversational AI. Imagine chatting with a deep space probe as it sails near Mars, fine-tuning its trajectory and sending back mesmerizing images from its mission to study asteroids that...

When the Lyrid meteor shower hits full strength Friday and Saturday morning, it will mark a sort of planetary triple crown: Earth Day, Good Friday and Passover. The Lyrids are one of the oldest known showers, creating a light show usually seen easily from Earth -- and completely harmless...

LOS ANGELES – NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects. Link Removed due to 404 Error Many of the targets in the celestial...

After 50 years of searching the heavens with radio telescopes to try to contact alien life, so far the attempts of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists seem to have fallen on deaf ears. So is there another way to try to find aliens in our galactic neighborhood? Some...