After nightfall on Saturday, December 19, the waxing gibbous moon will be parked next to the planet Uranus. Look for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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