NASA is testing its new telescope in a frigid vacuum to prep it for launch and its search for aliens on planets in other solar systems.
Elana Glowatz
May 08, 2017
Sometimes determination needs a helping hand.
Robert Frost
May 07, 2017
When science and art come together, it can help us envision what our universe looks like beyond the bonds of Earth’s gravity.
Elana Glowatz
May 06, 2017
New analysis by NASA of satellite data collected over 15 years found no link, but an older study using 10 years of data said cloud height could be decreasing.
Himanshu Goenka
May 06, 2017
The 12 proposals will now undergo scientific and technical review over the next seven months.
Avaneesh Pandey
May 06, 2017
Astronauts could not have made it to outer space without the brave group of deaf men who volunteered to help NASA.
Elana Glowatz
May 05, 2017
The Mars rover Curiosity is carrying dirt in its hand as it scales a mountain and continues exploring another planet.
Elana Glowatz
May 05, 2017
Astronomers say this new planet they found is like Jupiter but much hotter, and that makes for some freaky clouds and weather patterns.
Elana Glowatz
May 04, 2017
Jupiter’s enormous swirling red storm, its Great Red Spot, is shrinking so much that it is changing shape and could soon be the size of Earth.
Elana Glowatz
May 04, 2017
NASA released a half-minute movie Wednesday, made from a sequence of images captured by the spacecraft during the first dive of the Grand Finale mission.
Himanshu Goenka
May 04, 2017
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be on full display early Saturday.
Nina Godlewski
May 03, 2017
Stephen Hawking says humans have to leave Earth in the next 100 years and colonize another planet if we want any hope of surviving extinction.
Elana Glowatz
May 03, 2017
This giant wave is billions of years old and still going in the Perseus galaxy cluster.
Nina Godlewski
May 02, 2017
NASA is trying to find out how much greenhouse gas the mid-Atlantic can absorb to map out future climate change.
Nina Godlewski
May 02, 2017
When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft went on a dive between Saturn and its rings, scientists heard whooshes and squeaks instead of pops and cracks, showing that the gap is emptier than they expected.
Elana Glowatz
May 02, 2017
The total solar eclipse in August is your last chance to see one in the United States until 2024.
Nina Godlewski
May 01, 2017
Lego's new set is a one-meter tall NASA Saturn V, the rocket used for Apollo missions that sent people to the moon.
Denisse Moreno
Apr 28, 2017
Neptune appears to be moving backward in its orbit in these images taken by the Kepler spacecraft, but it’s all a trick.
Elana Glowatz
Apr 28, 2017
Tiny aliens on a TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet would have an easy time traveling to one of the neighboring planets in its solar system because they are so close together.
Elana Glowatz
Apr 27, 2017
Eruptions on the sun look very different, but they might all be produced the same way — with energy bursting through a magnetic field.
Elana Glowatz
Apr 27, 2017
A single piece of space junk could trigger an unstoppable domino effect of catastrophic collisions.
Juliana Rose Pignataro
Apr 27, 2017
The Dawn spacecraft observing Ceres lost the function of one of its reaction wheels.
Nina Godlewski
Apr 27, 2017