Hubble Finds 3 (Relatively) Dry Exoplanets, Raising Questions About Water Outside The Solar System
Surprise! Three planets believed to be good candidates for having water vapor in their atmosphere actually have much lower quantities…
Neck Of Rosetta’s ‘Rubby Duckie’ Comet Shows A Bright Ring
Rosetta's "rubber duckie" comet appears to be wearing a collar! New images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from the spacecraft, which is…
- Atlas V
- Commercial Space
- Kennedy Space Center
- NASA
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
- Space Shuttle
- Space Station
- United Launch Alliance
Risk Reduction Milestone Tests Move Commercial Dream Chaser Closer to Critical Design Review and First Flight
The winged Dream Chaser mini-shuttle under development by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of risk reduction…
Ultra-Deep Astrophoto: 75 Hours of the Antenna Galaxies
You might think the image above of the famous Antenna Galaxies was taken by a large ground-based or even a…
Split-Personality Pulsar Switches From Radio To Gamma-Rays
Another snapshot of our strange universe: astronomers recently caught a pulsar -- a particular kind of dense star -- switch…
Video: A Dizzying, Whirly View Of The Earth From Space!
We've got vertigo watching this video, but in a good way! This is a sped-up view of Earth from the…
‘Weak’ New Meteor Shower Due To Fragile Comet Dust
While the Camelopardalid shower only produced a few meteors, the lack of flashy disintegrations showed astronomers something new, a new…
ESO’s La Silla Observatory Reveals Beautiful Star Cluster “Laboratory”
Any human being knows the awe-inspiring wonder of a splash of stars against a dark backdrop. But it takes a…
Watch the Falcon 9 Rocket Booster Descend into the Ocean for its “Soft” Landing
SpaceX today released video from the Falcon 9 first stage flyback and landing video from the July 14 launch of…
Carnival of Space #363
The tent is up! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.…