This summer, NASA welcomed interns with professional teaching experience to help make the agency’s data more…
Hubble Images a Classic Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral…
Wafer-thin light sail could help us reach another star sooner
A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to…
NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is…
Not one, but two meteor showers are about to peak—here’s how to catch the stellar show
Geminids Meteor Shower in northern hemisphere. Credit: Asim Patel/ Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA 3.0 On any clear…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft gets lift on Earth
Credit: NASA/Amanda Stevenson Crane operator Rebekah Tolatovicz, a shift mechanical technician lead for Artic Slope Regional…
Serendipity, a super-Jupiter, and saving VIPER
The science community is rallying to save VIPER. Following NASA’s announcement of its intent to cancel…
How solar storms play havoc with our lives
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite the 150 million kilometers that separate it from the Earth, the…
From Concordia to the Moon
Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even…
Dark matter may solve the mystery of how colossal black holes merge
How do enormous black holes merge? Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Supermassive black holes sometimes merge, but for decades,…