Massive Storms Swirl on Jupiter in This Awesome NASA Photo By Meghan Bartels NASA's Juno spacecraft made another pass over Jupiter's surface late last month, and the data is back — including this stunning view of two enormous storms swirling across the gas giant.
No Planet Nine? Weird Orbits of Distant Objects May Have Different Explanation By Mike Wall The weirdly clustered orbits of some far-flung bodies in our solar system can be explained without invoking a big, undiscovered "Planet Nine," a new study suggests.
Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse of 2019: Complete Guide By Doris Elin Salazar Overnight from Jan. 20 to Jan. 21, 2019, millions of people in North and South America can enjoy a full hour of a total lunar eclipse.
Earth's Tilt May Exacerbate a Melting Antarctic By Stephanie Pappas As sea ice melts, Antarctica may get more sensitive to astronomical cycles.
How Long Is a Day on Saturn? Scientists Finally Solve a Lingering Mystery By Meghan Bartels Set your timers for 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds — scientists have finally figured out how long a day lasts on Saturn, cracking a lingering mystery about the ringed gas giant.
Blood Moon 2019: NASA Spacecraft Prepares for Total Lunar Eclipse Amid Government Shutdown By Mike Wall, Elizabeth Howell
Huge New Solar Telescope Shares Science Excitement with Neighboring Schools By Meghan Bartels This summer, the most powerful solar telescope ever built should make its first observations of our sun — but the excitement isn't just for scientists, the telescope team believes.
The Day Edwin Hubble Realized Our Universe Was Expanding By Stephanie Pappas It's the 90th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery.
Houston, We Have a Protest: NASA Space Center Workers Push Back at Government Shutdown By Meghan Bartels
What Moon Craters Can Tell Us About Earth, and Our Solar System By Meghan Bartels Asteroid impacts have a bad reputation here on Earth — it's the dinosaurs' signature public relations victory — but it's the moon that really bears the scars of living in our messy neighborhood.
Saturn's Rings May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs By Charles Q. Choi Saturn has not always had rings — the planet's haloes may date only to the age of dinosaurs, or after it, a new study finds.
The Ocean Is Hotter Than It's Ever Been By Yasemin Saplakoglu Ocean temperatures reached their highest point since accurate measurements first began in the 1950s.
Bizarre Superfluid Could Explain the Existence of the Modern Universe By Rafi Letzter Back in the first moment of the universe, everything was hot and dense and in perfect balance. A new quantum experiment aims to show how that changed.
Watch Ultima Thule Spin Like a Propeller in This Awesome New Horizons Flyby Video By Mike Wall The distant object Ultima Thule spins into view in a dramatic new video captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Fresh Rainfall on Saturn's Huge Moon Titan Spotted in NASA Photo By Mike Wall Here's something you don't see every day — the glint of freshly fallen rain on the surface of an alien world.
'Star Trek: Discovery' Returns for Season 2! Here's Everything You Need to Know By Scott Snowden The second season of "Star Trek: Discovery" will be back on your screens via CBS All Access this Thursday evening at 8:30 p.m. EST.
China's Moon Plants Are Dead By Mike Wall The cotton plants that sprouted on the moon's far side aboard China's Chang'e 4 lander are dead, done in by the bitter cold of the lengthy lunar night.
A Rare Kind of Black Hole May Be Wandering Around Our Milky Way By Meghan Bartels Scientists think that they've spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy.
Why Physicists Are Hunting the Strangest of the Ghost Particles By Paul Sutter These tiny subatomic particles, showering down from the depths of space, continue to surprise (and annoy) physicists chasing them.
Hubble Space Telescope's Glitchy Eye Should Clear Up Soon By Mike Wall The Hubble Space Telescope's main eye on the universe should be back up and running soon.
