Filter by Type
-
After Pluto, New Horizons Probe Draws Near to Its Next Target: Ultima Thule
September 20, 2018 | ArticleThe history-making New Horizons spacecraft, which famously zoomed past Pluto in July 2015, is now just 80 million miles (130 million kilometers) from its next target, a small and very distant object dubbed Ultima Thule.
Read More -
For Tiny Light Particles, 'Before' and 'After' Mean Nothing
September 20, 2018 | ArticleThis is how something can be both "before" and "after" something else.
Read More -
This Experiment Will Shoot Ghostly Particles Through Earth, Answer Why We Exist
September 20, 2018 | ArticleAn international group of physicists has announced that they have seen the first signals in a cube-shaped detector called ProtoDUNE.
Read More -
Child-Porn Investigation Caused New Mexico Observatory Closure: Report
September 20, 2018 | ArticleAn FBI investigation into child pornography caused the peculiar closure of a New Mexico solar observatory earlier this month, according to the news agency Reuters.
Read More -
NASA's New Planet Hunter Just Found Its 1st Alien World — an Evaporating 'Super-Earth'
September 19, 2018 | ArticleNASA's TESS spacecraft has detected its first alien world — a "super-Earth" that is likely evaporating under the heat from its star, a new study reports.
Read More -
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Sidelined by Glitch
September 19, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Curiosity Mars rover has temporarily halted science operations because of a glitch, mission team members announced today (Sept. 19).
Read More -
NASA's New Planet-Hunter TESS Beams 'First Light' Image to Earth
September 19, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in April to search for alien worlds orbiting stars relatively close to the sun, has beamed home its first science image.
Read More -
'Ask a Spaceman' Reveals Why You Wouldn't Want to Enter a Wormhole
September 19, 2018 | ArticleIn the latest installment of "Ask A Spaceman," astrophysicist and Space.com columnist Paul Sutter explains why trying to use a wormhole is a really bad idea.
Read More -
The Strongest Material in the Universe Could Be (Nuclear) Pasta
September 19, 2018 | ArticleThese noodles of neutrons may be 10 billion times stronger than steel.
Read More -
Giant Ice Volcanoes Once Covered Dwarf Planet Ceres
September 19, 2018 | ArticleDozens of ancient ice volcanoes once dotted the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, a new study finds.
Read More
- Previous
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- Next