Watch Curiosity’s Parachute Flap in the Martian Breeze
How cool is this? An animation of seven images from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a…
New Meme Puts Space Robots in Their Place
Oh, those space robots. They don't always do what we want them to do, but we love them anyway. If…
NASA’s Great Observatories Provide a Sparkly New View of the Small Magellanic Cloud
This is just pretty! NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared…
Incredible Views: Comet PANSTARRS Meets the Andromeda Galaxy
We warned you it was going to happen, and here's visual proof! In this comet encounter of the extragalactic kind,…
Building the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: 16 Years in 3 Minutes
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the International Space Station released its first results today (read about them here) after…
Wrapping Around The Mystery Of Spiral Galaxy Arms
How disk galaxies form their spiral arms have been puzzling astrophysicists for almost as long as they have been observing…
Space Station Detector Finds Extra Antimatter in Space, Maybe Dark Matter
The first results from the largest and most complex scientific instrument on board the International Space Station has provided tantalizing…
Astrophotos: We Have Liftoff from the Sun!
Here are three images showing large prominences recently lifting off from the Sun's surface. Solar prominences are sheets or arcs…
How Big Are Galaxies?
I'm going to refrain from the initial response that comes to mind... actually, no I won't -- they're really, really,…
Earth Month: NASA Launches New Interactive Image Gallery
In honor of Earth month, NASA has launched a beautiful new interactive image gallery that explores and highlights our latest…