It has recently been announced (never very loudly) that NASA’S Kepler spacecraft has found at least more than 100 confirmed alien planets – and probably far more than they actually make out to have discovered!
These Martian gullies may be linear, but they’re far from straight.
Color-discerning capabilities that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been using on Mars since 2012 are proving particularly helpful on a mountainside ridge the rover is now climbing.
Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets — comets outside our solar system — orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.
NASA has got us covered for spooky sounds for us this Halloween, with strange sounds from space!
An object that isn’t acting like most other objects in space has been picked up by a telescope in Hawaii that takes images for NASA.
Black holes are famous for being ravenous eaters, but they do not eat everything that falls toward them. A small portion of material gets shot back out in powerful jets of hot gas, called plasma, that can wreak havoc on their surroundings. Along the way, this plasma somehow gets energized enough to strongly radiate light, forming two bright columns along the black hole’s axis of rotation. Scientists have long debated where and how this happens in the jet.
Researchers hope Juno could help shed light on why Jupiter’s northern and southern lights behave differently.
NASA has released a chilling compilation of the ‘sounds’ of space, bringing to life the radio emissions captured by its spacecraft as they journey across the solar system.
Scientists and engineers are developing new hardware destined for the International Space Station to support experiments demonstrating how different organisms, such as plants, microbes or worms, develop under conditions of microgravity. Results from the Spectrum project will shed light on which living things are best suited for long-duration flights into deep space.
