New NASA Mission Will Measure the Mysterious Glow of Earth's Plants
Packed alongside supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station on an otherwise routine SpaceX…
Hubble Telescope Turns 29, Shares Incredible Photo of Southern Crab Nebula to Celebrate
Hubble scientists like to honor the telescope’s birthday with an annual release of 4/20-worthy space porn, and this…
Planet Mercury Has Solid Inner Core About the Same Size as Earth's
A new analysis has found that Mercury has a solid inner core, just like Earth does. And Mercury’s core is just about…
'It Feels Awesome': NASA Astronaut Learns She Will Spend Record-Breaking 328 Days in Space
Christina Koch has spent the past month orbiting Earth aboard the International Station. Earlier today, the NASA…
A Modified 747 Helped Spot Evidence of the Universe's First Atomic Bond
Scientists have spotted evidence of the earliest chemistry in the Universe, thanks to measurements taken from a…
Piece of a Comet Found Tucked Inside Meteorite
Scientists have found a cometary building block in an unexpected place: deep inside a meteorite, according to a new…
Final Results of NASA Twins Study Show How Scott Kelly Changed After a Year in Space
Last year, various media outlets fumbled their reporting of genuinely interesting research from NASA, one that hoped to…
The First Detailed Study of How Mice Behave in Space Reveals Strange, Coordinated Zooming
New research based on experiments done on the International Space Station shows that mice adapt quickly to microgravity…
Huge Lava Lamp-Like Blobs Spotted in 40-Year-Old Observations of the Sun
Scientists have found lava lamp-like blobs up to 500 times larger than the Earth in the solar wind, in data from a pair…
Curiosity Rover Spots a Pair of Solar Eclipses on Mars
There’s something completely sublime about watching solar eclipses from the surface of another planet, as showcased in…
NASA Chief Says Trip to the Moon Will Get Us to Mars Faster, but It'll Cost Ya
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Congressional committee on Tuesday that President Trump’s accelerated…
NASA: Debris Field Created by India’s Anti-Satellite Test Threatens the ISS
India’s first successful test of an anti-satellite weapon has produced an orbiting debris field consisting of at least…
Curiosity Rover Detected Methane on Mars in 2013, a New Analysis Confirms
NASA’s Curiosity rover shook the science community six years ago when it apparently detected traces of methane—an…
We Must Go to the Moon—and Bring Back Our Piss
Vice President Mike Pence announced this week that the Trump administration wants NASA to put American astronauts on…
NASA: All-Women Space Walk Is 'Inevitable,' but Sorry, Not the Right Spacesuits This Time
Astronauts on the International Space Station have completed 214 spacewalks in the past 21 years, but none have been…
Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon—or Else
Speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to put American astronauts on the…
A New List of Stars Shows Us Where to Look for Earth-Like Planets
Astronomers have created a catalog of 1,822 nearby stars around which the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…
Collecting Samples From Asteroid Bennu May Be Harder Than NASA Realized, New Findings Suggest
NASA scientists have released a boatload of data from OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. There are…
The Hayabusa2 Mission to Asteroid Ryugu Just Dropped Its First Scientific Results
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 mission has released its first batch of scientific results on…
A Huge Asteroid Exploded Above Earth, and You Totally Missed It
The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now.