Mira, the Pulsing 'Wonderful Star,' Flashes into Sight This Week By Joe Rao This week, the variable star Mira reaches its highest point, roughly halfway up in the southern sky at around 10 p.m. local time.
A Radar Station in Puerto Rico Can See Ice on Mercury By Meghan Bartels There are no hurricanes on Mercury, but there is plenty of water ice — and observing that ice can help scientists deal with the lingering effects of a very terrestrial hurricane.
Mysterious Gravitational Wave Sparks Days-Long Hunt — But It Was Just a Glitch By Rafi Letzter This wasn't what anyone was hoping for.
Giant 'Pac-Man' Black Holes May Grow by Gobbling Other Black Holes By Elizabeth Howell Like the famous video game superhero Pac-Man, black holes may grow by gobbling up feasts — in their case, other black holes.
The Weird Plumes of Jupiter's Moon Europa Are Spewing Water Vapor By Mike Wall The Jupiter moon Europa's elusive and enigmatic water-vapor plumes do indeed seem to be real.
NASA to Unveil New Private Moon Lander Partners Today. How to Listen In By Tariq Malik NASA will unveil its newest commercial partners to build private moon landers for trips to the moon today (Nov. 18) and you can follow the announcement live online.
Take a Fun Trip into a Black Hole: What's It Like Inside? By Paul Sutter You're about to take a dip into the inky blackness of a giant black hole and see what's on the other side of that enigmatic event horizon. What will you find inside? Read on, brave explorer.
Astronaut Spaceflight Training May Help Cancer Patients During, After Treatment By Samantha Mathewson The workout routine astronauts use to prepare for space may also benefit cancer patients by reducing the long-term side effects of medical care.
This Is How Light May Have Escaped from the Earliest Galaxies, Turning the Universe Transparent By Yasemin Saplakoglu An intervening cluster of galaxies acts like a cosmic microscope and bends and magnifies light from a distant galaxy.
Top Space Stories of the Week! By Doris Elin Urrutia These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.
Margaret Burbidge at 100: The Trailblazing Astronomer Who Wouldn't Take 'No Women' for an Answer By Andreea Font Apart from her groundbreaking work on the origin of elements, Burbidge is interested in galaxies, extremely distant and luminous cosmic objects and more.
How We Learned to Predict Solar Eclipses By Paul Sutter Two legendary scientists gave us an understanding of gravity, and how to apply that understanding to the motion of the sun, planets and moons.
McDonald Observatory: Searching for Dark Energy By Elizabeth Howell McDonald Observatory, in West Texas, represents eight decades of progress in telescope technology and offers an extensive menu of public programs.
Space Ballet: 2 Neptune Moons Perform an Unusual Orbital Dance By Elizabeth Howell Neptune's two innermost moons are locked in an unusual "dance of avoidance," according to researchers.
NASA Astronauts Recount Epic All-Woman Spacewalk in Washington Post Op-Ed By Elizabeth Howell "Echoes of a bygone era" that favored larger body types were one of the factors that delayed the first all-woman spacewalk .
New, 'Hidden' State of Matter Coaxed into Being by Ultrafast Laser Flashes By Rafi Letzter Physicists think this might be the first of many hidden states of matter that could be uncovered using laser flashes.
The 1st Sun Details from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Are Out. And They're Hot! By Meghan Bartels Want to see the sun in a whole new way?
A Million Geysers of Plasma Spout from the Sun, and Scientists May Finally Know Why By Charles Choi When it comes to the mystery behind what causes jets of plasma that regularly erupt from the sun, clues have now emerged suggesting magnetic clashes on the surface of the sun may be the culprits.
