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Farewell, Rosetta comet mission
ESA's great Rosetta comet mission has come to an end. Details from its final hour, here.
September 30, 2016
Need details on SpaceX’s Mars mission?
Links, photos and more about Elon Musk's plan to make humans a multiplanetary species.
September 29, 2016
Mercury is tectonically active
New findings suggest Mercury is contracting and experiences ongoing "mercuryquakes."
September 29, 2016
Possible water plumes spotted on Europa
Water plumes erupting on Jupiter's moon Europa might make it easier to investigate whether life exists in the warm ocean believed to be deep beneath its icy surface.
September 27, 2016
Last hurrah of sunlike star
New Hubble image shows the demise of a sunlike star. Our own sun will also burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
September 26, 2016
Cassini begins epic final year at Saturn
The spacecraft will plunge repeatedly between Saturn and its rings, and finally execute a headlong plummet into the body of Saturn itself.
September 26, 2016
Dwarf galaxies and dark matter update
Standard cosmology calls for many more dwarf galaxies than we see. A new computer simulation suggests we might not need so many dwarf galaxies, after all.
September 21, 2016
Twin jets pinpoint active galaxy’s heart
The supermassive black hole at the heart of NGC 1052 is now the most precisely located supermassive black hole in the universe … almost.
September 19, 2016
Hubble sees a comet breaking up
This comet is spinning so fast it's ejecting building-sized chunks, littering space with a debris trail as wide as the continental U.S.
September 18, 2016
Pluto ‘paints’ its largest moon red
"Who would have thought that Pluto is a graffiti artist, spray-painting its companion with a reddish stain that covers an area the size of New Mexico?"
September 15, 2016
