After a 10-year journey through the solar system, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has become the first-ever probe to rendezvous with a comet. The craft will stay with the comet for more than a year "as they swing around the Sun and...source: businessinsider.com
Planets and stars form as gravitational forces pull material together. We know that the pressure within these celestial bodies must be very great, but until now, scientists didn't know what happened to materials at those pressures. July 16, scientists announced they had successfully compressed a...source: businessinsider.com
July 16, 2014 Twenty years ago, human and robotic eyes observed the first recorded impact between cosmic bodies in the solar system, as fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Between July 16 and July 22, 1994, space- and Earth-based...source: scienceblog.com
This is really unexpected. Warner Bros. just delayed one of its biggest movies of the summer, “ Jupiter Ascending ,” until next year . The big-budget sci-fi movie, starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis, was set to be the next movie from the Wachowski siblings — the duo...source: businessinsider.com