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Topic: Astronomy (page 14)

Artist's conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter's. This object is 20 light-years from Earth. (Chuck Carter, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Rogue planet lurks in Earth's 'hood

Nicole Stock
(Shutterstock)

Star swings around black hole

Camille M. Carlisle - Sky & Telescope
(Getty/dottedhippo)

Martian lakes and the chance for life

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock)

Earth's asteroid warning system

Nicole Karlis
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An artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like, based on available data about its diameter, mass and distance from the host star. (NASA/AP)

These two planets may look like Earth 2

Nicole Karlis
(Picasa 2.0)

Are we alone? A question worthy of study

Kevin Knuth - The Conversation
Ryugu asteroid (JAXA and partner institutions via AP)

A robot arrives at an unexplored world

Nicole Karlis
Opportunity rover (NASA)

Oppy, phone home

Nicole Karlis
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The New Horizons spacecraft is headed towards an object nicknamed "Ultima Thule" (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

Probing the history of the solar system

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/dottedhippo)

Looking for life on BZ509

Nicole Karlis
(Shutterstock)

The next big discovery in astronomy?

Eileen Meyer - The Conversation
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

We may be close to detecting dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
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The Tiangong-1 module is seen via a camera in the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft. (STR/Getty)

What if Tiangong-1 hits land?

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

What we know because of Stephen Hawking

Christoph Adami - The Conversation
Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

‘Oumuamua came from a binary: report

Nicole Karlis
NASA astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Space can change your DNA

Matthew Rozsa
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(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Hawking's success: against all odds

Martin Rees - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-575581p1.html'>wang song</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The abstract of mathematics is important

Harry Zandberg Wiggins - The Conversation
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The powerful cyclones of Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves by Christopher Potter (Getty/imaginima/Pegasus Books)

How seeing Earth from space changes you

Keith A. Spencer
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(Getty/inhauscreative)

A roadmap to superhumans

Keith A. Spencer
The IMAGE spacecraft undergoing launch preparations in early 2000. (NASA)

Amateur astronomer finds lost satellite

Gabriel Bell
(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

January 31: A super blue blood moon

Shannon Schmoll - The Conversation
(Getty/puchan)

Asteroids most likely to hit Earth

Keith A. Spencer
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