After nightfall on Saturday, December 19, the waxing gibbous moon will be parked next to the planet Uranus. Look for … More
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Rail-riding ISS Cart Jams, Prompting Contingency Spacewalk Plans
A rail-riding cart weighing nearly a metric ton jammed while moving along the International Space Station’s exterior yesterday, prompting ground … More
NASA/Hubble: The Cloaked, Hidden Lair of a Supermassive Black Hole
Galaxy 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NuSTAR’s high-energy X-rays eyes were … More
Looking up at a martian dust dune…
Curiosity really is spoiling us with the pictures she’s sending back right now… here’s a mosaic of some of today’s … More
Mystery on Mars: Does Methane Really Indicate Life?
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is sniffing the air for methane, searching for clues that could help researchers determine what caused … More
Where Are the Jupiter Analogs?
Are Solar Systems like ours commonplace? One way of answering this is to look at the role of planets like … More
China Launches Dark Matter Probe
China’s recently launched Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) takes the hunt for elusive dark matter to space. The post China … More
Earthrise Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
Nearly 47 years ago, the crew of Apollo 8 took an image of planet Earth from the Moon that has … More
A Galaxy Sized Black Hole?
Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times the mass of the sun before losing … More
Curiouser And Curiouser: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Piles Of Silica On Mars
Potential answers for the unexpectedly high levels of silica all involve water. The space agency also says it found "a … More
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