Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
Space Exploration
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars – spinning neutron stars that emit short,...
A new approach to dating the birth of our solar system could help find other similar systems. Flickr/Dmitry...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ. / Photo by...
Huge ice sheets discovered on Mars could mean human exploration of the planet is closer than scientists...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
Footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk that was partially restored in 2009. / NASA 07.20.2017 July 1969....
The James Webb Space Telescope is pushed into the clean room of Building 32. Building 32 houses...
Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view....
Look ma, no gravity! / NASA By Andy Tay / 03.09.2017 PhD Candidate in Bioengineering University of...
Astronomers have made the most detailed observation yet of an ultra-fast wind emanating from a Black Hole...
Artist’s impression of what the view might be like from the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. NASA/JPL-Caltech...
Tiny CubeSats are ready to be our eyes in the skies. Earth Background: NASA; HARP Spacecraft: SDL;...
“We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus hidden by gas and dust, is seen in...
01.03.2017 NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time,...
As cold as ice: The New Horizons spacecraft aims to map the geology of Pluto and its...
Jupiter’s South Pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on August 27 2016. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS, processed by...
Earth’s limb at night, seen from the International Space Station, with air glow visual composited into the...
Curiosity got close to this outcrop on Sept. 9, 2016, which displays finely layered rocks. / Credits:...
12.01.2016 When astronauts are on their first test flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will take them...
JPL’s Steve Chien with several of the underwater drones used in a research project earlier this year....
To help reduce the amount of supplies Orion will carry for its crew, scientists are developing a...
11.22.2016 Forty-seven years ago, humans first set foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. That...
Astronomer and Radcliffe fellow Dimitrios Psaltis is working on black holes as part of the massive Event...