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One of Saturn’s rings is different
A study suggests particles in a section of Saturn's rings are denser than elsewhere, which could mean that ring is much younger than the rest.
September 9, 2015
Send your name to Mars: Deadline Tuesday
Your name can ride along on a mission to Mars. It's easy, quick and free to make that happen. Details here.
September 7, 2015
Andromeda galaxy yields star birth secrets
Are the same percentages of stars with gargantuan mass, low mass and intermediate mass born everywhere throughout space?
September 7, 2015
New Hubble image: Spiral galaxy M96
In this image, the galaxy resembles a whirlpool of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the galactic nucleus or core.
September 5, 2015
Aryan Mishra invites teens to astronomy
Asteroid discoverer Aryan Mishra wants to open teens' eyes to the beautiful and amazing possibilities that cosmos has in store.
September 3, 2015
Comet Hitchhiker concept takes a step
A spacecraft using Comet Hitchhiker orbits and lands on multiple comets and asteroids using a harpoon and tether and the energy of motion of the small bodies themselves.
September 3, 2015
Double black hole powers nearby quasar
One black hole may be 4 million solar masses, about the same mass as our Milky Way's central black hole. The other may be 150 million solar masses.
August 31, 2015
New Horizons’ potential next flyby target
New Horizons will perform four maneuvers in October and November to veer toward 2014 MU69 - an object in the Kuiper Belt - aiming for a January 1, 2019 encounter.
August 30, 2015
Origin of Saturn’s F ring and shepherd moons
The F ring, Saturn's outermost ring, is perhaps the most active ring in our solar system, with features changing on a timescale of hours.
August 28, 2015
New images from Dawn mission to Ceres
Dawn spacecraft has now moved to within about 900 miles (1,500 km) from the dwarf planet Ceres. See some early images from its new, closer orbit.
August 28, 2015
