The Great Exoplanet Bake-Off: Why NASA Made an Oven-Fresh Alien Atmosphere in Its Lab By Brandon Specktor NASA scientists cooked up an alien atmosphere in their lab to solve the puzzle of "hot Jupiters."
Image of the Day By Hanneke Weitering Happy vernal equinox! Here's a satellite view of the sun rising over North America this morning on the first day of spring. In the Southern Hemisphere, today is the first day of autumn.
Vernal Equinox 2019: Google Doodles Celebrate as Earth's Seasons Change By Tariq Malik The seasons change on Earth today, and Google is getting into the equinox spirit with a pair of doodles to celebrate the yearly milestone.
Here's the Right Way to Nuke an Asteroid (Sorry, Bruce Willis) By Meghan Bartels If you want to use a nuclear weapon to save the world from an asteroid, don't try to do it the way Bruce Willis did, NASA's planetary defense office would like to remind you.
Surprise! 'Active Asteroid' Bennu Is a Rare Particle-Ejecting Space Rock By Mike Wall The near-Earth asteroid Bennu is one of just a dozen or so known 'active asteroids,' newly announced observations from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveal.
Water on Asteroid Bennu Could Mean 'Pay Dirt' for Space Miners By Mike Wall The near-Earth asteroid Bennu could be Exhibit A for space miners making their case to skeptical investors.
NASA to Unveil New Discoveries from Asteroid Bennu By Hanneke Weitering NASA will announce new science results from its first-ever asteroid sample return mission in a live teleconference today (March 19) at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT). Listen live here!
Asteroid Ryugu Is Surprisingly Dry, Japanese Spacecraft Finds By Samantha Mathewson A Japanese spacecraft studying the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu beamed home new data revealing that the space rock has less water than scientists expected.
Sneaky Meteor Evades Earthling Detection, Explodes with Force of 10 Atomic Bombs By Brandon Specktor On Dec. 18, 2018, a school bus-size meteor exploded over Earth with an impact energy of roughly 10 atomic bombs. But no one saw it.
83 Gargantuan Black Holes Spotted Guzzling Down Dinner at the Edge of the Universe By Stephanie Pappas The supermassive black holes were birthed during the universe's infancy.
Space Orbiter Spots 'Hairy Blue Spider' on Mars By Mindy Weisberger Bowie was right; there really is a "spider" from Mars.
'Space's Deepest Secrets' Probes Mystery of 'Oumuamua Tonight (Video) By Kasandra Brabaw The Science Channel series "Space's Deepest Secrets" returns tonight (March 19) at 10 p.m. EDT with a look at a mysterious interstellar visitor.
Queen Guitarist Brian May Scores Ultima Thule Flyby Time-Lapse Video By Sarah Lewin An ethereal track by Queen lead guitarist Brian May accompanies the awe-inspiring time-lapse view from NASA's New Horizons flyby of a distant solar system object.
Early Earth's Spin Helped Shape Its Molten Magma Ocean By Stephanie Pappas The early Earth's worldwide sea of magma may have been shaped by the young planet's rapid spin.
Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer By Meredith Fore The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.
How Did We Figure Out Atoms Exist? By Paul Sutter The concept of atoms had been floating around off and on for a few millennia, but it took some clever experimentation to pinpoint their existence.
What’s the Closest Planet to Earth? Not Venus, Scientists Say By Yasemin Saplakoglu That acronym you learned to memorize the order of the planets has led you astray.
