In the Space.com forums this week: Perseverance prizes, exploration and breaking theories! By Mohamed Mohammed This week, the Space.com forums kicked off our Perseverance Prize giveaway, talked space exploration and more. See what's up here.
NASA names Perseverance rover's Mars touchdown site 'Octavia E. Butler Landing' By Elizabeth Howell The Perseverance rover's Red Planet touchdown site has been renamed for Octavia E. Butler, the noted African American science fiction author.
First-ever 'space hurricane' detected over the North Pole By Brandon Specktor Astronomers detected the first-known 'space hurricane' raging over the North Pole for 8 hours in 2014, a new study found.
The top space stories of the week! By Doris Elin Urrutia These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.
Space photos: The most amazing images this week! By Doris Elin Urrutia See the best photos on Space.com this week.
Space Chat with Space.com: Tune in Fridays for science, space and more! By Chelsea Gohd This Friday (Mar. 5), Space Chat will explore commercial space initiatives like Inspiration4, which aim to send commercial astronauts to space.
Read a free issue of How It Works magazine! By Jeanna Bryner Our sister publication is the action-packed magazine that’s bursting with the answers to your curious questions
Spotting UFOs: Do-it-yourself sky surveillance comes online By Leonard David If you are perplexed by reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and possible visitations of alien spacecraft, you can take action with do-it-yourself sky-monitoring gear.
In the Space.com forums this week: Perseverance prizes, exploration and breaking theories! By Mohamed Mohammed This week, the Space.com forums kicked off our Perseverance Prize giveaway, talked space exploration and more. See what's up here.
On This Day in Space! March 5, 1982: Soviet Venera 14 probe lands on Venus By Hanneke Weitering On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!
In the Space.com forums this week: Perseverance prizes, exploration and breaking theories! By Mohamed Mohammed This week, the Space.com forums kicked off our Perseverance Prize giveaway, talked space exploration and more. See what's up here.
Space Chat with Space.com: Tune in Fridays for science, space and more! By Chelsea Gohd This Friday (Mar. 5), Space Chat will explore commercial space initiatives like Inspiration4, which aim to send commercial astronauts to space.
NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars was a giant leap for America, President Biden says By Mike Wall The reverberations from the epic touchdown of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will extend far beyond the science and spaceflight communities, President Biden said.
Here's what we know about planetary protection on China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission By Meghan Bartels In anticipation of China's first Mars landing attempt, scientists are wondering whether the Tianwen-1 rover may carry Earthly contamination with it to the surface.
Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site By Mike Wall Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.
Watch live tonight: Join Slooh's live webcast of asteroid Apophis flyby By Space.com Staff The Slooh online observatory will broadcast live views of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis tonight (March 5) at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Saturday).
Huge asteroid Apophis will safely fly past Earth tonight. Here's where to watch live online. By Elizabeth Howell At least two astronomy broadcast services plan to showcase the asteroid Apophis as it flies by Earth safely on Friday (March 5).
Large asteroid Apophis will safely fly by Earth on Friday By Elizabeth Howell Our solar system's most infamous asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday (March 5), and with a high-end telescope you can watch it as it safely whizzes by our planet.
In the Space.com forums this week: Perseverance prizes, exploration and breaking theories! By Mohamed Mohammed This week, the Space.com forums kicked off our Perseverance Prize giveaway, talked space exploration and more. See what's up here.
Space Chat with Space.com: Tune in Fridays for science, space and more! By Chelsea Gohd This Friday (Mar. 5), Space Chat will explore commercial space initiatives like Inspiration4, which aim to send commercial astronauts to space.
Netflix launches 'Pacific Rim: The Black' anime series By Jeff Spry When Kaiju ravage Australia, two siblings pilot a Jaeger to search for their parents in this new teaser for Netflix's "Pacific Rim: The Black" anime series available now.
