Confused Mercury Crater Looks Icy, But May Be Evaporation Evidence
At first glance, you'd think that white stuff on the floor of Kertesz crater is ice, especially since that substance…
Ghostly Moon Crowns Pictures Beamed To Earth In Astronaut’s Twitter Feed
A crescent moon hovering above Earth's delicate atmosphere. Green aurora flickering over Siberia. Space is a beautiful place, and we're…
Fun New Kickstarter is a Space Station Detector
There's a coffee shop in Pasadena, California that has a cool little device that lights up whenever the International Space…
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Holy Wheels, Sharp Rocks Force NASA’s Curiosity rover to Seek Smoother Pathway to Mount Sharp
Up close photomosaic view shows lengthy tear in rover Curiosity’s left front wheel caused by recent driving over sharp edged…
Why Hawking is Wrong About Black Holes
A recent paper by Stephen Hawking has created quite a stir, even leading Nature News to declare there are no black…
Columbia’s Demise 11 Years Ago Today Sparked Regular Shuttle Inspections In Space
The Columbia's shuttle fiery end came as the STS-107 astronauts' families were waiting runway-side for everyone to come home. NASA's…
Spirit and Opportunity Top 10 Decade 1 Discoveries – Top Rover Scientist Tells Universe Today
A Top 10 Decade 1 Discovery by NASA's Twin Mars Exploration Rovers Carbonate-Containing Martian Rocks discovered by Spirit Mars Rover…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 31, 2014: No Black Holes?!?
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Brian Koberlein, Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson, Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci (more…)
This Is What It Looks Like to Freefall From Space
Remember BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner's incredible freefall from the "edge of space" in October 2012? The highly anticipated (and highly publicized) Red…
Young Planets Migrated In Double-Star Systems, Model Shows
Binary star systems are downright dangerous due to their complex gravitational interactions that can easily grind a planet to pieces.…