NASA Wants to Give the Moon a Moon
The space firm provides further details on its mission to shunt an asteroid into lunar orbit.
The space firm provides further details on its mission to shunt an asteroid into lunar orbit.
Looking like something straight out of a sci-fi flick, this picture shows the Russian Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft as it was moved by train to its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday. Read more >
Mars's Marathon Valley sure is pretty, don't you think? Read More >>
Team of astronomers create space image that shows incredible shift in life of stellar objects.
The Mars Exploration Rover, better known as Opportunity, has beamed back images and data from the Red Planet since 2004. As as of today, it's travelled 26.219 miles, making it the first little interplanetary explorer to complete a marathon.
We talk to Daniel T. Barry about what it's like to explore the Final Frontier, why he thinks NASA's mission to Mars is humanity's most important endeavour yet, and his thoughts on Captain T. Kirk.
The Red Planet rover took a detour before stumbling upon the intriguing chemical compound.
The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice occurred early this year, and, at 5.61 million square miles, was the smallest in four decades.
These NASA employees may be lying down, but the experience isn't perhaps as relaxing as it looks.
While we're all squinting to see a solar eclipse, The Red Planet is being bathed in a spectacular light show.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was a piece of modern sculpture. But in fact you're looking at one of NASA's old Vanguard satellites.
This is an image of a 'classical nova'. Sounds boring, right? Not when you describe it as "an outburst produced by a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star", it's not. Read more >
This may just be another glorious picture of Saturn's rings—but it also serves to show just how large the planet is.
This past Thursday, a blizzard warning was in effect on the Big Island of Hawaii. Yes, even in Hawaii, it snows.
In the wee hours of this morning, NASA launched the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, which is on its way to the Magnetosphere, tasked with demystifying Earth's strange, flippable magnetic fields.
The largest, most powerful booster ever built just put one hell of a scorch mark in the Utah desert.
