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Why does this brown dwarf have such strangely red skies ?
Brown dwarfs straddle the line between stars and planets. This one caught researchers' attention for its extremely red appearance. Turns out its atmosphere is laden with dust.
February 7, 2014
NASA spacecraft spots new crater on Mars
Cosmic paintball! NASA image of dramatic new impact crater on the planet Mars.
February 6, 2014
Polaris, aka the North Star, is getting brighter
Modern interpretations of the historical data indicate that Polaris could be as much as 4.6 times brighter than it appeared to some of the earliest astronomers.
February 5, 2014
Kepler discovers a wobbly planet with weird seasons
On Earth, the cycle of precession lasts 26,000 years. The planet Kepler-413b precesses, or wobbles, wildly on its spin axis, in a cycle of only 11 years.
February 5, 2014
Where the Curiosity rover is now on Mars
The Curiosity rover is in a particularly interesting place now, creeping across a sand dune in a place called Dingo Gap on Mars. Breathtaking images!
February 4, 2014
Amazing new image of Saturn’s puzzling hexagon
Saturn's hexagon is a long-lived weather pattern at the planet's north pole, first spotted by Voyager 1 in 1980.
February 4, 2014
NASA to create the coldest spot in the universe aboard the ISS
The researchers plan to study matter at 100 pico-Kelvin. At such low temperatures, ordinary concepts of solid, liquid and gas are no longer relevant.
January 31, 2014
Video: Solar eclipse from space
On Jan 30, the moon moved between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse only visible from space.
January 31, 2014
Video: Stargazing in the Canadian Rockies
Jack Fusco captured more than 2,000 photos during the 2013 Jasper Dark Sky Festival in Canada, in order to create this timelapse video.
January 30, 2014
Space travel weakens flies’ immune systems
Fruit flies sent as eggs on a 12-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery had a key part of their immune system weakened, as they grew in space.
January 30, 2014
