China’s Chang’e-3 Moon Rover Descends to Lower Orbit Sets Up Historic Soft Landing
All systems appear to be “GO” for the world’s first attempt to soft land a space probe on the Moon…
Weekly Space Hangout – December 13, 2013 – Europa’s Water Jets and Chinese Lunar Lander
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: David Dickinson, Amy Shira Teitel, Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci (more…)
When Is a Star Not a Star?
When it's a brown dwarf -- but where do we draw the line? Often called "failed stars," brown dwarfs are…
Why Our Universe is Not a Hologram
Editor's note: This article was originally published by Brian Koberlein on G+, and it is republished here with the author's…
NASA Weighs Spacewalk To Fix Cooling Problem On Station
NASA may allow its first spacewalk since summer to deal with a malfunction that crippled a cooling loop on the…
This Picture Symbolizes The Changing Mission Of One Plucky Spacecraft
Besides being a darn pretty picture of the Helix nebula, this snapshot is a bit of symbolism for NASA. The…
Why Exoplanet-Hunting Is ‘Like Seeing A Flea In A Lightbulb’
Exoplanets are really tiny compared to their host star, and it's hard to imagine sometimes how astronomers can even find…
Fast Radio Bursts May Originate Closer to Home Than Previously Thought
Fast radio bursts — eruptions of extreme energy that occur only once and last a thousandth of a second —…
Argon – The First Noble Gas Molecules Discovered In Space
There are only six of them: radon, helium, neon, krypton, xenon and the first molecules to be discovered in space…
New Flyover Video Takes You on a Tour of Titan’s Lake Region
Saturn’s moon Titan has the only known liquid lakes beyond planet Earth, and new data from the Cassini spacecraft’s radar…