New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic...
Want a little reminder of how amazingly clever we humans can be? Yesterday, from a distance of more than 320...
Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth’s picture from billions of miles away—resulting in...
The Orionids meteor shower is peaking this week, bringing about 15 to 20 shooting stars per hour. The meteors barrel...
After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect...
Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On October 20,...
In November 2018, after an epic, 41-year voyage, Voyager 2 finally crossed the boundary that marked the limit of the...
Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20,...
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will...
Red dwarfs are the coolest kind of star. As such, they potentially allow liquid water to exist on planets that...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward the surface of Bennu on Oct. 20, it will be the first time that...
NASA’s Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it reached Mars in late 1971. It got there only...
