Black holes are notorious serial starkillers, so good at what they do that we don’t even have photos of them, just the NASA version of police sketches.
The largest unnamed body in the solar system provisionally called 2007 OR10, is one of the nine known dwarf planets, and is located in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.
The rivers on Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, flow across its landscape the way they used to on Mars before it dried up, so Titan may not be as similar to Earth as we thought.
The irregular dance done by electrons can cause magnetic reconnection and events like auroras.
NASA finished up sea ice and glacier mapping in early May, and it was one of its best years for data collection.
Humans affected space weather, in a way usually reserved for the sun when the U.S. and the Soviet Union exploded nuclear bombs in the atmosphere during the Cold War.
Sens. Tim Kaine and Tammy Baldwin spearheaded a letter signed by 32 other senators, arguing that cutting NASA's Office of Education will hurt the U.S. workforce.
An Indian teenager designed a tiny, lightweight satellite that NASA will launch into space next month.
These photos of SpaceX launches are eye catching.
The dwarf planet Ceres was in the perfect spot for NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to take shots of its bright surface and its even brighter crater.
A human space colony on Mars or another planet may evolve into a different race if we leave inhabitants alone to breed.
One of NASA's cameras caught flashes happening on Earth from water in the atmosphere.
Earth isn’t the only planet in our solar systems that has storms. Clouds gather and lightning crashes throughout our neighborhood.
Stephen hawking and dozens of other leading scientists in the field of cosmology penned a heated joint letter in response to a paper calling into question the origins of the universe.
NASA conducted its 200th spacewalk Friday, take a look at some photos from past walks.
Astronomers may have found a supermassive black hole that has left its usual place at the center of its galaxy and is on the move.
Little moons in Saturn’s rings, called moonlets, are blasting through and kicking up material that create propeller-shaped features in the rings.
Researchers may have found a way to simulate and predict solar storms.
NASA is testing its new telescope in a frigid vacuum to prep it for launch and its search for aliens on planets in other solar systems.
When science and art come together, it can help us envision what our universe looks like beyond the bonds of Earth’s gravity.
New analysis by NASA of satellite data collected over 15 years found no link, but an older study using 10 years of data said cloud height could be decreasing.
The 12 proposals will now undergo scientific and technical review over the next seven months.