NASA is testing an all-terrain slithering robot to explore tunnels, glaciers, and snowdrifts on Saturn’s icy moon of Enceladus. The 13-foot-long (4 meter) machine is called...
Perhaps the most astonishing phenomenon ever discovered by astronomers was recently observed “accidentally” by the Hubble Space Telescope. What Hubble saw was a supermassive black hole...
A dusty document used on the Moon is set to go under the auctioneer’s hammer for over $500,000. The mission checklist was worn on the lunar...
Using data from several space missions and the Hubble telescope, an astronomer discovered that Saturn’s rings are heating its own atmosphere—something that has never been seen...
By creating a simulated universe, scientists working in concert with NASA have replicated how we can expect the soon-to-be-launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope can study...
An astronaut snapped a jaw-dropping picture of this week’s aurora borealis from space. NASA’s Josh Cassada captured the light display aboard the International Space Station (ISS),...
An astronaut snapped a jaw-dropping picture of this week’s aurora borealis from space. NASA’s Josh Cassada captured the light display aboard the International Space Station (ISS),...
Always keen to anthropomorphize their robots, NASA put out a social media post of one of their Mars rovers coming upon an exciting discovery. Putting words...
Fiction and non-fiction writers alike have imagined life on Mars. Now, you don’t need any imagination to picture the resident as a giant bear. Scientists at...
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole’s gravitational...