Check out Cassini’s amazing Saturn dive from a totally new perspective
While we all wait with the utmost patience for NASA to show off the images captured by the Cassini spacecraft during its second dive through …
While we all wait with the utmost patience for NASA to show off the images captured by the Cassini spacecraft during its second dive through …
From the perspective of us here on Earth, clouds are usually pretty boring. Sure, sometimes we spot one that looks cool or see a unique …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made a big name for itself by being a reliable source of really awesome photographs of parts of Saturn and its …
Some of the coolest discoveries made by NASA — like the personality of Martian soil, for instance — are often so small in scale that …
The past few weeks have been jam-packed with stunning imagery from Saturn, delivered courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft. Now, almost as if to say “Hey, …
NASA is usually so busy showing off all the awesome stuff it finds out in space that it’s easy to lose track of the cool …
Humans will one day walk on Mars and while it almost certainly won’t happen on the fever-dream timeline that Donald Trump seems to think is …
NASA delivered some fantastic news very early this morning, announcing that the Cassini spacecraft had successfully survived the first of its “Grand Finale” dives. The …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been delivering fantastic views of Saturn and its moons for many years now, and this year it will meet its ultimate …
NASA and its spectacular space hardware often spend so much time checking out our planetary neighbors that we forget Earth offers some pretty cool photo …
Space is big and the hardware that humans keep sending into the great beyond is comparatively small, but our habit of letting random bits of space …
Tonight, a particularly large asteroid is going to cruise by Earth at its closest point in 400 years, and while we humans are going to …
Tonight is a big night for skywatchers thanks to the relatively close approach of a large asteroid called 2014 JO25. The rock is slated to …
Earlier today, NASA and the United Launch Alliance combined to show the first-ever rocket launch in 360-degree virtual reality. It was meant to be a …
NASA doesn’t usually hold news conferences for minor discoveries or observations, so when the agency announced that it would be holding a press conference this …
We’ve got plenty of oceans here on Earth, but that’s not good enough. We need oceans on other planets as well, since we’re eventually we’re eventually …
NASA makes exciting discoveries about the universe and nearby planets on a regular basis, but the past few months have produced a particularly steady stream …
The universe never lets us here on Earth go very long before reminding us that we’re really just a random dice roll away from global catastrophe. The …
Do you like Earth? Yeah, it’s pretty neat, huh? Well despite living on a planet as awesome as our own, astronomers are super eager to …
It’s been a while now since astronomers began openly discussing the possibility of a ninth planet in our solar system — and no, it’s not …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been hanging out in space for two decades, with well over a decade of that time spent exploring the space around …
When you’re replacing the air filter or swapping the battery in your car and drop a tool it’s a pretty frustrating feeling. Where did it …
The idea that Mars was once covered in vast oceans is a relatively new theory in the grand scheme of things, but the support evidence has …
It’s only been a few days since one of the photos sent back by NASA’s Juno probe took our breath away, but now even more of …
There’s no shortage of theories about what Mars was like billions of years ago. The prevailing guess is that water was abundant, and there may …
NASA has managed to capture some pretty stunning photos of all the cool stuff they’ve spotted over the years, and rarely does it fail to …
Space junkies really, really want to see what’s going on over on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It’s a relatively small sphere compared to its host planet, …
Supermassive black holes are one of the scariest, most destructive and utterly intimidating forces in the universe, but the good news is that they usually don’t …
President Donald Trump’s gutting of many government entities has created some serious outrage from both sides of the isle, but one scientific agency Trump isn’t really messing …
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been cruising along the martian surface for some time now. It doesn’t move particularly fast, and in the years that it’s …