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Wow, Mars Sure Can Be Pretty
The HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continues to supply stunning images of the Martian surface.
It Might Be Possible to Refreeze the Icecaps to Slow Global Warming
According to a new study from the School of Earth and Space Exploration, it may be possible to refreeze the…
NASA Fires a Rocket into the Northern Lights, for Science!
Not only is it aurora season in Alaska, its sounding rocket season! NASA started launching a series of five sounding…
Ring of Fire: Catch the Only Annular Solar Eclipse of 2017 This Sunday
'Tis the season... eclipse season, that is, as an annular solar eclipse marks the end of the first cycle of…
SpaceX Dragon Arrives at Space Station with Tons of Earth and Human Science Experiments
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A SpaceX Dragon supply ship jam packed with more than 2.5 tons of critical science…
Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Here’s an Aerial View of a Massive Iceberg Shearing away from Antarctica
Members of the British Antarctic Survey shot a video of the wide crack in the Antarctic Larsen Ice Sheet, which…
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon
The Event Horizon Telescope should give us our first picture of a Black Hole in the beginning of 2018.
Huge News, Seven Earth-Sized Worlds Orbiting a Red Dwarf, Three in the Habitable Zone
In what is the biggest announcement in exoplanet-hunting history, NASA has announced the discovery of seven rocky exoplanets around a…
Here’s Something We Never Thought We’d See on a Comet: Shifting Dunes
The Rosetta mission’s close-up views of the curiously-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have already changed some long-held ideas about comets. But here’s…