Juno photos reveal more stunning glimpses of Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa By Tereza Pultarova published 7 October 22 Fabulous portraits of Jupiter's mysterious icy moon Europa captured by NASA's Juno mission reveals the moon, which may possibly harbor life, in unexpected colors.
Massive Mars dust storm threatens NASA's InSight lander By Meghan Bartels published 7 October 22 Scientists have acknowledged for months that the mission's end was near, and now, a continent-size dust storm is darkening the Martian skies, further impacting power production.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff published 7 October 22 An image of Jupiter's ocean-bearing moon Europa taken during a recent flyby by NASA's Juno probe received a psychedelic treatment revealing the mysterious world in unexpected colors.
Rare dark-streaked meteorites may come from a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid By Robert Lea published 7 October 22 Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.
'Cannibal' stars have shortest known orbit of all binary systems By Keith Cooper published 7 October 22 The stars are so close that the white dwarf can steal matter from its companion, and this matter piles up and explodes on the white dwarf's surface.
For the 1st time, Mars robots found meteorite impact craters by sensing seismic shock waves By Katarina Miljkovic published 7 October 22 In new research, we used data from InSight to detect and locate four high-speed meteoroid collisions, and then tracked down the resulting craters.
New 3D view of Cat's Eye Nebula suggests double star hides at its heart By Doris Elin Urrutia published 7 October 22 A brand new 3D model showcases the complex beauty behind the Cat's Eye Nebula.
The asteroid targets of this NASA mission are turning out to be very strange By Meghan Bartels published 7 October 22 NASA's Lucy spacecraft still has five years of trekking through space before it sees its first Trojan asteroid, but mission scientists are already getting a sense of what these rocks look like.
Satellite images reveal the scale of Nord Stream gas pipeline leak By Tereza Pultarova published 7 October 22 Satellite data revealed that the Nord Stream gas leak was not as bad as it seemed, at least in the context of global annual methane emissions.
World Space Week 2022: 'Learning Lunchbox' science kits reach kids across the US By Elizabeth Howell published 6 October 22 Ohio's Center of Science and Industry launched a 'Learning Lunchbox' initiative to help their community in 2020. 2 years later, it has the attention of NASA and the White House.
NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps its most detailed view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa By Tereza Pultarova published 6 October 22 NASA's Jupiter-exploring Juno spacecraft captured its most detailed images of the ice-covered, ocean-bearing moon Europa.
How massive stars steal planets By Richard Parker published 6 October 22 Our new paper shows how massive stars in such stellar nurseries can steal exoplanets away from each other — and what the signs of such theft are.
Mysterious reflections on Mars might come from something stranger than water By Elizabeth Rayne published 6 October 22 Scientists revisiting a puzzling signal from the south pole of Mars have suggested a new potential explanation, and it doesn't bode well for hopes of finding liquid water on the Red Planet.
Uranus' weird tilt may be the work of a long-lost moon By Paul Sutter published 6 October 22 Uranus is just plain weird, and one of the weirdest things about it is its tilt.
Mysterious high-speed gas cloud in space might be the result of an explosive stellar death By Robert Lea published 6 October 22 The mystery of high-speed gas clouds that whip around the outskirts of the Milky Way might be solved.
World Space Week: Sustaining astronomy in an age of satellite megaconstellations By Keith Cooper published 5 October 22 The future of satellite constellations and the fight to save the night sky are reaching a crucial tipping point.
Massive space rock impact could have 'instantly' created the moon By Robert Lea published 5 October 22 New research suggests that a giant space rock impact may have created the Earth's most loyal companion much more rapidly than previously thought.
James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble team up to peer through cosmic dust By Tereza Pultarova published 5 October 22 Astronomers have combined observation from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to get a better grasp of how interstellar dust obscures the view of distant galaxies.
Iconic James Webb Space Telescope images get X-ray vision boost By Robert Lea published 5 October 22 Four of the first science-quality images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have received a boost from X-ray vision.
Massive ancient lava flow seen from space looks like a giant black scar on the New Mexico desert By Harry Baker published 5 October 22 A new astronaut photo shows the Carrizozo Malpaís lava flow in New Mexico in stunning detail.
