We Finally Know What This Big Red Splotch on Pluto's Moon Is
A new paper out in Nature looks at data from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto to come up with a solution to the mystery.
A new paper out in Nature looks at data from NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto to come up with a solution to the mystery.
Continually melting ice caps and shifting seasons are wreaking havoc on these creatures' lives.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp, where it captured these beautiful colour images of eroded rock formations. Read more >>
This marks the first step in a seven-year journey to bring back spoonfuls of dirt from an asteroid.
NASA’s asteroid-skimming spacecraft just blasted off into space without a hitch, completing the first step in a seven-year journey.
What have we done to anger you, space gods?
For six decades, scientists have watched a steadily circulating wind pattern in the tropical stratosphere, repeating like clockwork every two years. Now, for the first time, it’s changed direction.
When NASA cancelled its Mars Insight mission late last year, it wasn’t clear if the lander would ever make it to the surface of the Red Planet. Today, that lander got a second chance.
No extraterrestrials found yet – but this is a great tool for finding them.
We’ve never seen Jupiter quite like this. Nasa's Juno spacecraft just flew closer to the gas giant than any other human-made object. Read More >>
In space, no one can hear you scream. Unless you’re a spacecraft with a direct link to NASA.
So now that scientists react to global warming with an almost charming amount of indifference, it’s about finding different ways to measure the amount of ice near our poles.
With this much planning, you’d think Americans were putting together a wedding.
Let's hope there are no Gravity-style mishaps.
It's going to take them forever to feed the coins into the ticket machine, isn't it?
Watch this time-lapse footage of NASA building a 130-foot rocket tank in a mere 60 seconds. Read More >>
