Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Closest look yet at Ceres’ bright spots
Mysterious Spot 5 - most prominent of Ceres' bright spots - is shown to consist of many smaller spots in a new image from the orbiting Dawn spacecraft.
May 11, 2015
Amazing timelapse of volcanic sunset in Zimbabwe
Last night's sunset in Zimbabwe - May 10, 2015 - made spectacular by volcanic aerosols carried across the Atlantic from Chile's Calbuco volcano.
May 11, 2015
Proposal to find and zap space debris
Tiny debris particles cause wear and tear on active satellites. A team wants to find it and zap it with a laser to cause its fall back into Earth's atmosphere.
May 11, 2015
Faster-than-light travel: Are we there yet?
There's a cosmic speed limit that unfortunately means we won't be firing up warp drive anytime soon.
May 11, 2015
You are there! Sunset on Mars
A beautiful new timelapse showing sunset on Mars in mid-April, 2015, from the Mars Curiosity rover.
May 10, 2015
Geysers on Enceladus: Curtains not jets
Researchers thought Saturn's moon Enceladus had jet-like geysers. But the jets may be optical illusions, caused by looking through a "fold" in curtain-like geysers.
May 9, 2015
Asteroids and comets seed exoplanets with water
Earth's water likely came from asteroids and/or comets. New research suggests that small bodies in distant solar systems carry water to their planets, too.
May 9, 2015
Doomed Russian spacecraft burns up over Pacific
Roscosmos said the craft "ceased to exist" over the Pacific. The final time of reentry is 9:20 p.m. CDT (02:20 UTC), with an accuracy of plus or minus 1 minute.
May 8, 2015
Traffic around Mars gets busy
With five active spacecraft now orbiting the planet, NASA has beefed up its traffic monitoring to make sure the Mars orbiters don't get too close to each other.
May 6, 2015
