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Measuring universe expansion reveals mystery
Is something unpredicted going on in the depths of space?
March 11, 2018
Update on S2, the star plunging past the Milky Way’s black hole
Astronomers report no companion found for S2, the star orbiting near our Milky Way's central black hole. It's an "all-clear” for an exciting test of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
March 9, 2018
Day meets night on Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft captured this image during its 11th close flyby of the planet. It shows swirling cloud formations around Jupiter's south pole.
March 9, 2018
Send your name to the sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, launching this summer, will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft yet - and you can send your name along for the ride. Hear about it from William Shatner.
March 8, 2018
See asteroid 2017 VR12 as it swept past
Asteroid 2017 VR12 passed at 3.76 times the moon's distance on March 7. Here are images and video of its sweep past Earth.
March 8, 2018
Views of home
Intriguing and inspiring perspectives of our home planet from spacecraft cameras looking back at Earth.
March 7, 2018
A signal from the 1st stars
It’s potentially one of the most exciting astronomical discoveries of the decade. Astronomers have detected a signal from the 1st stars to form in the universe.
March 3, 2018
This asteroid will pass closer than the moon on Friday
And you can watch the passage of near-Earth asteroid 2018 DV1, live, on March 2.
March 2, 2018
See Mars moon Phobos drift in front of Saturn
Expand to full size to see this video from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, which caught a close-up view of the little Mars moon Phobos, moving in front of distant Saturn.
March 1, 2018
Astronomers detect earliest hydrogen
They used a radio telescope to peer back to a time only 180 million years after Big Bang - when the 1st stars were turning on - to observe the earliest-yet signals of hydrogen gas.
February 28, 2018
