Elisha Sauers

1 day ago | mashable.com | Elisha Sauers

Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth over the weekend, German astronomers watched it tumble through space. As Kosmos 482 took its last laps, a German radar station spotted the uncrewed landing capsule passing over its antenna. The station, the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, has combined its observations with an image of a similar capsule to show the spacecraft's orientation and features in the radar reflection.

2 days ago | mashable.com | Elisha Sauers

Astronomers have zoomed in on Jupiter's poles to get a better look at the gas giant planet's auroras — 100 times brighter than the Northern Lights on Earth. These alien light shows are not only humongous compared to the ones people are used to seeing in our own skies, but also, they're powered by an extra source. Jupiter's strong magnetic field reels in charged particles from its immediate space environment.

2 days ago | id.mashable.com | Elisha Sauers

Sebelum NASA meluncurkan astronot Scott Kelly ke orbit untuk pertama kalinya pada tahun 1999, ia mendapat perintah penting dari komandannya: Ambil salah satu popok ini dan berlatihlah di rumah. Jadilah dia, mengenakan popok luar angkasa keluaran pemerintah, berbaring di bathtub dengan kakinya disangga. Ia mencoba mensimulasikan posisi duduk di Pesawat Ulang-Alik.

3 days ago | me.mashable.com | Elisha Sauers

A black hole skulking in the shadows 600 million light-years away in space gave itself away with a dazzling flash, the light of a star it had just gnashed and eaten. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black holes, this one was thousands of light-years away from the core — 2,600, in fact.

5 days ago | mashable.com | Elisha Sauers

A black hole skulking in the shadows 600 million light-years away in space gave itself away with a dazzling flash, the light of a star it had just gnashed and eaten. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black holes, this one was thousands of light-years away from the core — 2,600, in fact.