Top Space Stories of the Week! By Doris Elin Urrutia These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Our Solar System's Most Famous Storm By JoAnna Wendel It's been a great, enormous storm for more than a 100 years. But will Jupiter's Great Red Spot last much longer?
RIP, Van Allen Probes! NASA Ends 7-Year Mission to Explore Earth's Radiation Belts By Meghan Bartels Another long-lived NASA mission has come to an end, this one after more than seven years of dancing through the perilous belts of radiation around Earth.
This Poofy, Inflated Exoplanet Is One of the Puffiest Ever Seen By Charles Q. Choi Giant alien worlds with searing, close orbits to their host stars can inflate like balloons. Now astronomers have discovered one so puffy that it is one of the least dense planets ever discovered.
An Asteroid-Smashing Star Ground a Giant Rock to Bits and Covered Itself in the Remains By Rafi Letzter Good news for scientists. Bad news for any asteroid dwellers.
Pictures from Space! Our Image of the Day By Space.com Staff The Milky Way glistens above four antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a telescope array in northern Chile.
The Milky Way Stole Its Cosmic Neighbors from Another Galaxy By Elizabeth Howell Our home galaxy stole several dwarf galaxies that used to belong to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy near the Milky Way.
Doomed Alien Planets 'Polluted' White Dwarf Stars with Earth-Like Rocks By Charles Q. Choi By analyzing the disintegrated remains of distant worlds consumed by their stars, a new study found that at least some rocky exoplanets may have interiors similar to those of Earth and Mars.
Scientists Want to Make a 3D Map of the Entire World Before Climate Change Ruins It By Brandon Specktor A nonprofit called The Earth Archive wants to make a 3D map of the entire planet, before the climate crisis changes Earth's face forever.
Humans Will Never Live on An Exoplanet, Nobel Laureate Says. Here's Why. By Yasemin Saplakoglu Here's the reality: We're messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we're done with our own are wishful thinking.
A Faux Saturn Moon Titan on Earth Could Solve Solar System Mystery By Meghan Bartels Big, schmancy compounds keep popping up all over the solar system, and new research may help clear up confusion about how they form in so many places.
Exotic 'Fuzzy' Dark Matter May Have Created Giant Filaments Across the Early Universe By Adam Mann Simulations help distinguish a cosmos containing fuzzy dark matter from one without it.
NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander and Curiosity Rover from Space (Photos) By Mike Wall New photos give us the best-ever look at NASA's InSight lander on the surface of Mars and show the circuitous route the Curiosity rover is taking up a big Red Planet mountain.
Hubble Space Telescope Spots Interstellar Comet Borisov (Video) By Elizabeth Howell NASA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope turned its eyes to interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov and caught a surprise: The interloper looks a lot like comets from our own solar system.
Moon VIPER: NASA Wants to Send a Water-Sniffing Rover to the Lunar South Pole in 2022 By Meghan Bartels NASA is already pulling together plans for what could become its first long-lived robotic rover on the moon's surface, designed to sniff out water and targeting a landing date of 2022.
Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the Cosmos By Erika K. Carlson But don't worry, no laws of physics are being violated.
How the Nobel Prize-Winning Exoplanet Was Found By Paul Sutter The 1995 discovery showed that the sun isn't the only star to host a family of planets — something we had long figured but never demonstrated — and also that the universe is really, really weird.
'Young' Ice at the Moon's South Pole Surprises Researchers By Elizabeth Howell Some ice deposits on the moon are younger than expected, researchers say, and it appears these deposits came from multiple sources at different times in our solar system's history.
