NASA's New Horizon will fly past MU69 in the Kuiper belt in 2019 and the space agency wants your help in giving the frozen, distant world a nickname.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 07, 2017
While it has an icy surface, Enceladus has a global ocean underneath the crust from which water vapor and icy particles stream out in long jets.
Himanshu Goenka
Nov 07, 2017
NASA, ESA joint mission SOHO and NASA's STEREO spotted "parent" comet 96P together. The combined observations could help us study the evolution of a comet family.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 06, 2017
The first photos of the sun were taken in the first half of the 19th century and they paved the way for many important solar observations in the future.
Elana Glowatz
Nov 04, 2017
A team from NASA have shown that atmospheric beacons around exoplanets could point to the planets' ability to sustain life.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 03, 2017
These pictures from deep space show how a bunch of asteroids got in the way of a Hubble Space Telescope.
Nina Godlewski
Nov 02, 2017
The hole in the ozone shrunk this year due to warmer than usual temperatures, but researchers don't think it's a sign of healing for the ozone.
Nina Godlewski
Nov 02, 2017
CERN is taking steps to develop a cheap device that can monitor radiation exposure in space.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 02, 2017
NASA has released visualizations of the magnetic field around several planets of our solar system and their moons.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 02, 2017
NASA's Curiosity rover captured color images and mapped Hematite on Mars which showed a much higher level of water-rock interaction in the past.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Nov 02, 2017
The first launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX was moved from November to December.
Nina Godlewski
Nov 01, 2017
NASA's newest Mars 2020 rover will be equipped with 23 cameras to explore the Red Planet extensively.
Nina Godlewski
Nov 01, 2017
The team wanted to study the cataclysmic eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in April 1815, which is thought to have triggered the so-called "year without a summer" in 1816.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Oct 31, 2017
NASA is working on two efforts to develop compact technologies that could help understand comets better and maybe even deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
Himanshu Goenka
Oct 31, 2017
Researchers made progress in new research on how the relativistic jets of black holes form.
Nina Godlewski
Oct 30, 2017
The first photos ever taken in space are older than NASA itself.
Elana Glowatz
Oct 28, 2017
NASA created a Halloween playlist of spooky sounds from around the solar system.
Elana Glowatz
Oct 27, 2017
Vice President and National Space Council Chair Mike Pence visited the newest Mars lander.
Nina Godlewski
Oct 27, 2017
The GRACE satellites — used to measure Earth's moving mass — will fall to Earth in the coming months.
Nina Godlewski
Oct 27, 2017
Martian winters and sublimation cause changes in the Martian landscape, a new study has said. Research sheds light on the linear gullies, which has baffled scientists for years.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Oct 27, 2017
NASA explains the new laser-focus sight used on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Oct 27, 2017
Images of a comet plume captured by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft have baffled scientists for a year. Now, a new paper has found that the plume gathered energy from under the comets' surface.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Oct 27, 2017