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Pluto’s heart: Icy and alive
Computer simulations show that the heart-shaped Sputnik Planum region on Pluto is covered with icy, churning, convective "cells," less than a million years old.
June 6, 2016
Ice ages, and ice at Mars’ polar cap
Confirmation that Mars came out of its last ice age 400,000 years ago. Plus insights into the water cycle on Mars, a possible help to future space colonists.
June 4, 2016
Help astronomers observe Tabby’s Star
They're using Kickstarter to raise funds needed to unravel one of astronomy's biggest mysteries. Is the star KIC 8462852 surrounded by an alien megastructure?
June 2, 2016
Watch ISS’s newest module expand
Astronauts in orbit aboard ISS spent more than 7 hours on Saturday filling the new BEAM module with air. Check out this 25-second timelapse.
June 1, 2016
SDO peers into huge coronal hole
A NASA animation from May 17-19, 2016 shows a coronal hole in our sun's hot outer atmosphere, or corona. Should we be scared?
May 31, 2016
Four mini-Neptunes orbiting in lock step
For every three orbits of the outermost planet orbiting the star Kepler-223, the second planet orbits four times, the third six and the innermost eight.
May 30, 2016
Life ingredients in Rosetta’s comet
It's "the first unambiguous detection of glycine at a comet" and supports the theory that the building blocks for life came to Earth from outer space.
May 28, 2016
Is dark matter made of black holes?
What if if dark matter consisted of a population of black holes similar to those detected by LIGO last year? A new study analyzes this possibility.
May 28, 2016
Clues to birth of supermassive black holes
Astrophysicists have taken a major step forward in understanding how these monster black holes are born.
May 28, 2016
Best close-up of Pluto’s surface
The most detailed view of Pluto’s terrain you’ll see for a very long time, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015.
May 28, 2016
