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A Gigantic Flood Carved Up Mars Not Too Long Ago
Researchers have created new maps of Mars that reveal an ancient network of underground channels, likely formed by a gigantic flood. The findings were published online Thursday, March 7, in the journal...
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Meet The Women Who Send Rockets Into Space
Today is International Women's Day, which celebrates women's growing contributions to society and participation in the workforce. The fields of science, technology, engineering and math, especially,...
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Russian Satellite Struck By Chinese Space Debris
A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely, SPACE.com has learned.The...
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Elon Musk Just Showed Never-Before-Seen Video Of A Reusable Rocket Launch
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a 45-minute talk at South by Southwest on Saturday. The entrepreneur is involved in a broad range of projects, from cars to space travel. One project he's currently working...
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Giant Honeycomb Will Peer Back Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before
The James Webb telescope will launch in 2018 as the successor to the long-running Hubble Telescope, which has been taking pictures of the early universe for 22 years. The giant space telescope will...
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NASA: The Sun Is Not Behaving As Expected
The sun is currently nearing the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, which means we should be seeing a lot more action coming from the center of our solar system — in the form of coronal mass ejections,...
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Time Lapse Videos From The ISS Show Incredible Startrails, Aurora, And...
From the International Space Station, astronauts can glory in the beauty of the Earth from above and the vastness of space from below. Astronaut Don Pettit spent more than a year on the International...
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Today We Might Find Out If There Was Ever Life On Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover used the drill on her robotic arm for the first time in February to drill into a Martian rock and collect a powered sample from the inside of that rock.The space agency will hold...
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Yes, Mars Could Have Once Supported Life!
After seven months of roaming around the Red Planet, NASA's car-size robot, called Curiosity, has finally provided evidence that Mars could have once supported microbial life, the space agency...
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NASA Scientist: You Would Have Been Able To Drink The Water On Mars
NASA scientists confirmed on Tuesday that Mars could have once supported microbial life. The results comes from a powder rock sample that the Curiosity rover collected in early February. In that...
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World's Largest Space Observatory Opens In Chile
In a super-arid desert at an altitude of 5,000 meters, with almost no humidity or vegetation, the world's largest ground-based astronomy project opens for business on Wednesday ready to probe the...
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A Bright Comet Appears In The Northern Hemisphere For The First Time In Years...
Comets that are visible to the naked eye only happen once in every five to 10 years, according to NASA.That's why skywatchers around the world are lucky to see Comet Pan-STARRS dazzling at its...
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New Mapping Techniques Will Help Us Find The Next Earth
Astronomers could one day create rough maps of the continents and oceans on far-away planets, determining the balance of oceans, lands, and overhanging clouds.The technique uses reflected starlight off...
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Software Bug Stalls The Curiosity Rover
Plans for the Curiosity rover are on hold after the $2.5-billion robot kicked into into "safe mode" on Saturday following a software error. This is the second software hiccup in Curiosity's seven...
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US Department Of Interior Is Awe-Struck By Northern Lights Photo
Even the US Department of Interior has an appreciation for the Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis.The department just tweeted this photo from Denali National Park in Alaska. "One of the...
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Media Totally Blows News About Voyager 1 Leaving The Solar System
Many news outlets are reporting that NASA's Voyager 1 has left the solar system (see here, here, and here). That's not accurate. The news is based on a study published Wednesday in the journal...
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Apollo-Era Rocket Engines Pulled From The Bottom Of The Atlantic Ocean [PHOTOS]
Scientists used underwater vehicles to recover, from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the most powerful engines ever fired to boost rockets from the Apollo program into space. The two F-1 engines...
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Don't Believe The Myth About Eggs On The Spring Equinox
The rumor that it's possible to stand an egg on its end on the first day of spring, also known as the vernal equinox, is only partly true. It is possible to stand an egg on its head. But it has nothing...
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Five Things We Didn't Know About The Universe Before This New Map
New data from the Planck telescope indicates that the universe is 13.82 Billion years old — 100 million years older than we thought.Planck launched into space in 2009 and has been scanning the skies...
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The First Full Hypercolor Map Of Mercury Is Stunning [GIF]
NASA just released this incredible hypercolor map of Mercury, the first full map of the planet:Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. NASA's Messenger probe flew by the planet on it's way through...
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