NASA Spots Eerie ‘Spider’ Shapes in Mars Crater View
David Bowie was on to something with his Spiders from Mars. While there are no crawling arachnids in residence on the red planet, there are spectacular landscape features known as…
How to See the Full Harvest Supermoon Rise Tonight
If you’re in Europe, the Americas or Africa, make a plan to get outside around sunset on Thursday. The rest of the world should plan to do the same Friday…
Meteor Shower Season Heats Up With Daytime Sextantid Show
August’s Perseid meteor shower may be the most well known of the year, but it’s the last quarter of the year that brings the most shooting-star and fireball action to…
NASA Opens Osiris-Rex Asteroid Sample Canister, Revealing Cosmic Bounty
On Tuesday, specialists from NASA and Lockheed Martin removed the lid from a canister filled with “black dust and debris” collected from the major asteroid Bennu by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. The mission marks…
NASA astronaut returns to Earth after 371 days in space, a US record for longest continuous spaceflight
A NASA astronaut now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight after returning to Earth Wednesday, but the feat did not come voluntarily. American Frank Rubio and two Russian…
Antarctica Logs ‘Record-Smashing’ Low for Sea Ice, Says NASA
NASA may be famous for its space exploits, but it’s just as concerned with what’s happening on our own planet as it is with what’s going on out yonder. Researchers…
Meteor Shower Season Heats Up as Orionids and Taurids Activate
August’s Perseid meteor shower may be the most well known of the year, but it’s the last quarter of the year that brings the most shooting-star and fireball action to…
Peculiar Galaxies Collide in Haunting NASA Hubble View
Have you ever looked at an image from the Hubble Space Telescope image and got the feeling you’re being watched? Take a gander at Hubble’s view of galaxy pair Arp…
How to See the Full Harvest Supermoon Rise This Week
Traditionally, the full moon that takes place nearest to the northern autumn equinox has been known as the “harvest” moon in Europe and North America. For centuries the bright moon’s…
NASA Brings Home Asteroid Sample Swiped by Osiris-Rex Spacecraft
For the first time, NASA has returned some dust and other bits of an asteroid collected in space to Earth for study. Pieces of a large asteroid named Bennu were jarred…