Space
First Interplanetary Launch from West Coast Lights Up Night Sky
May 5, 2018, 7:45 am EDT
NASA launched Saturday morning an Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars InSight lander from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to look deep beneath the surface of Mars, studying the red planet’s interior by listening for marsquakes and measuring its heat output.
NASA Team Proposes Sending Submarine to Explore Titan’s Methane Sea
May 4, 2018, 11:59 am EDT
Lab teams from NASA Glenn’s COMPASS lab and labs from Johns Hopkins and Penn State have come up with a wild idea: they want to send a submarine to explore the depths of a vast methane sea on one of Saturn’s moons.
Watch Mesmerizing Magnetic Waves on Sun
May 2, 2018, 1:39 pm EDT
An amazing sight on the sun as magnetic waves dance on the surface.
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Its First Images
May 1, 2018, 2:25 pm EDT
See the stunning composite of colorful images sent by the European Space Agency’s gas-seeking orbiter.
Largest Map of Milky Way Ever Made
April 26, 2018, 4:35 am EDT
The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite releases the largest map of the Milky Way ever made.
Eerie Images Reveal What it’s Like to Live on a Comet
April 24, 2018, 2:36 pm EDT
Images from the surface of an obscure comet depict scenes similar to a scary movie.
Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs, Seriously
April 24, 2018, 5:47 am EDT
This poor planet will always be the butt of the joke.
Astronomers Reveal ‘DNA’ of 340,000 Stars
April 23, 2018, 4:36 pm EDT
The GALAH survey used the AAO’s 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope to examine the spectra of over 340,000 stars.
Close Call as Football Field-Size Asteroid Flies by Earth
April 18, 2018, 12:44 pm EDT
This space object was spotted mere hours before it passed by our planet.
NASA Flyover Reveals Cyclones Above Jupiter’s North Pole
April 13, 2018, 1:36 am EDT
Animation generated by infrared images of Jupiter’s North Pole by the Juno spacecraft shows powerful cyclones.
