Ice Deposits on Ceres Might Only Be a Few Thousand Years Old

The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice…

The Mystery of Cosmic Rays Deepens

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles accelerated to extreme velocities approaching the speed of light. It takes…

NASA Confirms that a Piece of its Battery Pack Smashed into a Florida Home

NASA is in the business of launching things into orbit. But what goes up must come…

Are Titan’s Dunes Made of Comet Dust?

A new theory suggests that Titan’s majestic dune fields may be have come from outer space.…

The Solar Wind is Stripping Oxygen and Carbon Away From Venus

The BepiColombo mission, a joint effort between JAXA and the ESA, was only the second (and…

The Solar Eclipse Like We’ve Never Seen it Before

You had to be in the right part of North America to get a great view…

The Milky Way’s Most Massive Stellar Black Hole is Only 2,000 Light Years Away

Astronomers have found the largest stellar mass black hole in the Milky Way so far. At…

Amazing Amateur Images of April 8th’s Total Solar Eclipse

The last total solar eclipse across the Mexico, the U.S. and Canada for a generation wows…

Asteroid 2024 HA flew past Earth at just 0.4 LD – the closest flyby of the year and 20th closest on record

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2024 HA flew past Earth at a distance of just 0.4 LD…

Piece of largest object ever jettisoned from ISS crashes into Florida home, U.S.

In March 2021, NASA ground controllers deployed the International Space Station’s (ISS) robotic arm to discard…