India’s Bargain Mars Spacecraft Cost Less Than Many Space Movies
India achieved a remarkable feat earlier this week -- the nation became only one of a handful of countries to…
Cute Video Shows The Many Ways The Planets And Moons Can Kill You
While we're huge advocates here for space exploration, there certainly is an inherent danger to leaving the Earth. In a…
Hubble Vision: Galaxy DDO 68 – Young Or Old?
Only astronomers know for sure... Or do they? In this assembly of images taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys,…
Some Of Earth’s Water Could Be A Million Years Older Than The Solar System
A new model suggests that up to half of the water on Earth may be older than the Sun and…
India’s MOM Captures First Image of the Red Planet
India’s “history creating” maiden interplanetary voyager, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has captured her historic first image of the Red…
Multicolor Mars! Speedy NASA Spacecraft Takes Pictures Just Hours After Arrival
Sure is fun to see the Red Planet in different colors! This is what the gases around the Red Planet's…
Alien Planet’s Clear Weather Could Show Way To ‘Super-Earth’ Atmospheres
In an encouraging find for habitability researchers, astronomers have detected molecules on the smallest planet ever -- a Neptune-sized planet…
A Fun Way of Understanding E=mc<sup>2</sup>
Many people fail to realize just how much energy there is locked up in matter. The nucleus of any atom…
New Results from Planck: It Doesn’t Look Good For BICEP2
One of the recent sagas in cosmology began with the BICEP2 press conference announcing evidence of early cosmic inflation. There…
Amazing Timelapse: Watch the Milky Way Spin Above the Space Station
Have you ever sat outside on a starry night and just watched the stars move slowly above you? Here's a…