Earth's Magnetic Field Nearly Disappeared 565 Million Years Ago By Yasemin Saplakoglu Earth’s magnetic field nearly collapsed about 565 million years ago, but the planet’s core froze solid and saved it in the nick of time, a new study suggests.
As Polar Vortex Freezes US, Satellites Track It from Space By Meghan Bartels It's winter in the United States, and swaths of the country are experiencing bitter cold brought on by a phenomenon nicknamed the polar vortex, a pattern weather satellites are watching closely.
North Dakota Will Get Colder Than The North Pole Tonight — Here's Why By Rafi Letzter A meteorologist explains the science behind the historic weather event hitting the Midwest and Plains right now.
Dark Energy Gets Weirder: Mysterious Force May Vary Over Time By Mike Wall Dark energy is even more mysterious than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.
Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats By Rafi Letzter A laser pulse glanced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of Schrödinger's cat.
This 'Universe in a Box' Has Enough Astronomical Data to Fill 30,000 Wikipedias By Meghan Bartels It's hard to grasp the sheer amount of astronomical data that came online this week in a 1.6 petabyte data-dump from a Hawaiian telescope, but picture 30,000 Wikipedias or 15 Libraries of Congress.
2014 MU69: New Horizons' 'Snowman' in the Kuiper Belt By Nola Taylor Redd New Horizons' historic flyby of the KBO 2014 MU69, or Ultima Thule, is revealing incredible insights about the birth of the solar system.
Newfound Distant Space Rock May Be Missing Link of Planet Formation By Mike Wall The far outer solar system is teeming with mountain-size space rocks left over from the long-ago planet-formation period, a new study suggests.
365 Days of Sunshine: Time-Lapse Video Shows the Sun on Every Day of 2018 By Hanneke Weitering A time-lapse video combines 365 photos of the sun taken by the Proba-2 satellite in 2018.
Curiosity Snaps Epic 'Selfie' on Mars as It Moves On to New Martian Sights By Meghan Bartels We all edit our selfies to capture our best sides, and the Curiosity rover on Mars is no different, as shown in a new "selfie" NASA released to mark the rover's last days at Vera Rubin Ridge.
The Hubble Telescope's Deep View of the Universe Is Now Even More Astounding! By Mike Wall One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images peered even deeper into the cosmos than scientists had thought.
Life's Chaotic: Let's Learn About Entropy By Paul Sutter There are some universal certainties. Death. Taxes. The second law of thermodynamics.
NASA Probe Snaps 1st Photos from Just a Mile Above Asteroid Bennu and the View's AMAZING! By Meghan Bartels NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is orbiting an asteroid closer than any spacecraft has ever orbited a body — and it shows in an incredible pair of photographs that the team released yesterday (Jan. 24).
Triangulum Galaxy Reveals Stunning Stellar Symmetry in Amazing Hubble Telescope Views By Elizabeth Howell Time to change your desktop pictures. The Hubble Space Telescope just produced an amazing panorama image of the Triangulum Galaxy, one of the closest galactic neighbors to Earth.
Saturn's Biggest Moon Titan May Bake Its Own Atmosphere By Sarah Lewin The dense atmosphere roiling on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may come from organic material baking in the moon's interior.
Space Image of the Day Gallery (December 2018) By SPACE.com Staff See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in December 2018.
Space Image of the Day Gallery (November 2018) By SPACE.com Staff See amazing images of the night sky and cosmos in Space.com's gallery of cosmic images posted in November 2018.
