Over a third of Antarctic ice shelf could collapse as climate change warms the Earth By Chelsea Gohd Over a third of the Antarctic ice shelf is at risk of collapsing as Earth continues to warm.
Hubble telescope captures striking image of a dying galaxy By Kasandra Brabaw The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a dying galaxy.
How NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity can fly on the Red Planet By Mike Wall Flying on Mars is far from a breeze, but NASA is confident that its little helicopter is up to the challenge.
The top space stories of the week! By Doris Elin Urrutia These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.
Biden proposes $24.7 billion NASA budget in 2022 to support moon exploration and more By Meghan Bartels More than two months after taking office, President Joe Biden has offered a first look at his budget priorities, and the signs for NASA are generally promising.
Space Chat with Space.com: Tune in Fridays for science, space and more! By Chelsea Gohd This Friday (April 9), Space Chat will explore SpaceX's upcoming Crew-2 mission.
How to watch the Mars helicopter Ingenuity's first flight online By Elizabeth Howell The first helicopter is expected to attempt the first-ever flight on Mars on Sunday (April 11), with NASA unveiling the results a day later, and you can follow it all online.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff 60 years after the first human spaceflight launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin off of Earth, Russia launched a Soyuz named after Gagarin to the International Space Station.
20 years of otherworldly thought experiments: A Q&A with artist Jonathon Keats By Mike Wall For 20 years, Jonathon Keats has been asking us to recalibrate our assumptions about the universe and our place in it through a series of thought experiments. A new book dives deep into his work.
Hubble telescope finds rare double quasars in ancient galactic collisions By Daisy Dobrijevic NASA's long-serving Hubble Space Telescope is seeing double after detecting two rare pairs of quasars nestled within galactic collisions that occurred 10 billion years ago.
Helicopter on Mars! NASA webcast teaches kids about Ingenuity's upcoming 1st flight By Samantha Mathewson NASA’s education team hosted a special webcast for students on Thursday (April 8) to talk about the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and its upcoming first flight on the Red Planet.
A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core By Ben Turner But this may not be the end of the story.
These selfies of NASA's Mars helicopter with the Perseverance rover are just amazing By Mike Wall Two gorgeous new photo mosaics show NASA's Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter as you've never seen them before.
Spooky 'spiders on Mars' finally explained after two decades By Brandon Specktor Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.
Alien raindrops are similar to those on Earth By Mike Wall The droplets falling through alien skies are broadly similar to the ones that splash down here on Earth, even if they're made of different stuff.
No, the Perseverance rover didn't spot a rainbow on Mars By Mike Wall NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a photo on Sunday (April 4) that appeared to show a rainbow arcing across the dusty Martian sky. But it's just a lens flare.
Hubble telescope reveals a gorgeous, detailed new view of the Veil Nebula By Kasandra Brabaw NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning photo of the Veil Nebula in more exquisite detail than ever before.
Lava tubes in Hawaii could be a dress rehearsal for Mars colonies By Mindy Weisberger Exploring volcanic lava tubes in Hawaii helps researchers understand how humans should prepare for living and working on worlds other than Earth.
These weird lumps of 'inflatons' could be the very first structures in the universe By Mara Johnson-Groh An ultra-high-resolution simulation of a tiny slice of the universe — a million times smaller than a proton — has revealed the very first structures to ever exist.
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red Planet By Mike Wall The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.
