The Juno space probe and the Hubble Space Telescope recorded new images of Jupiter that will…
Author: KENNETH CHANG
Trilobites: Photos of Jupiter From NASA Spacecraft, Both Near and Far
The Juno space probe and the Hubble Space Telescope recorded new images of Jupiter that will…
SpaceX Launches a Satellite With a Partly Used Rocket
The use of a rocket booster that had flown once before may open an era of…
SpaceX Launch Feels Familiar for Part of the Falcon 9 Rocket
On Thursday, SpaceX will try to launch a cheaper, partiallyused rocket to take a communications satellite…
How Comet 67P’s Face Changed During Its Trip Around the Sun
During the two years that the Rosetta spacecraft stalked the comet, it observed cliffs that collapsed,…
Trilobites: Pan, Moon of Saturn, Looks Like a Cosmic Ravioli (or Maybe a Walnut)
In photographs by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the closest images ever taken, the tiny, wrinkly moon has…
SpaceX Plans to Send 2 Tourists Around Moon in 2018
If the mission proceeds as planned, the private space travelers would be the first humans to…
7 Earth-Size Planets Identified in Orbit Around a Dwarf Star
Astronomers are excited by the discovery, which suggests that some of these exoplanets — planets around…
NASA Looks to Speed Timetable for Putting Astronauts in Deep Space
The agency’s acting administrator offered the first hints of a notable mission that could lead to…
Trilobites: Meteor Puts on a Light Show Over Midwest, and for the Cameras
The fiery object streaked across the Midwest sky early Monday morning. It was seen as far…