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See asteroid mission launch September 8
NASA's first sample return mission to an asteroid launches Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 UTC). Links here to follow the mission online.
September 8, 2016
A rare relic of the early Milky Way
Terzan 5 looks like an ordinary globular cluster, but has stars of hugely different ages. Some of its stars are similar to the Milky Way's most ancient stars.
September 7, 2016
Small asteroid to pass very close today
Asteroid 2016 RB1 will pass safely - at about the distance of our geosynchronous satellites - on September 7, 2016.
September 7, 2016
Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight
Brown dwarfs are like stars, but too small to ignite fusion in their cores and so shine as stars do. If you saw one, it wouldn't be brown. It'd be magenta.
September 7, 2016
Listen to Jupiter’s auroras
Plus more cool stuff from the Juno spacecraft's August 27 closest-yet flyby of Jupiter.
September 6, 2016
Update on Dawn mission to Ceres
The Dawn spacecraft is still orbiting Ceres. It went into an extended mission mode on July 1. Some mission highlights and current thinking, here.
September 6, 2016
SDO sees a double eclipse
Cool video! On September 1, the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory caught both Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun.
September 5, 2016
Philae comet lander … found!
With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, the Philae comet lander has been found wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
September 5, 2016
A quasar Milky Way six million years ago?
As the first human ancestors walked the Earth, our galaxy's central black hole might have been in the process of blasting away most of the galaxy's normal matter.
September 4, 2016
Space X explosion at Cape Canaveral
No injuries in Thursday's explosion on a SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral. But Facebook's planned satellite is no more.
September 1, 2016
