Giant Spiders on Mars!
Eek, spiders! All right, so it's not actually little green arachnids we're talking about here, but they are definitely spidery…
Are Dust Devils Whirling Around the Curiosity Rover?
In this latest update from the MSL team, Ashwin Vasavada, the Deputy Project Scientist, explains how Curiosity has been monitoring…
2012 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
Early Leonids captured on Nov. 14, 2012 in Ohio. Credit: John Chumack The annual Leonid Meteor Shower has already begun,…
Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…
Now Even Further: Ancient Galaxy is Latest Candidate for Most Distant
It seems that every few months or so comes a new discovery of a new “most distant galaxy ever found.”…
Spacecraft Capture Solar Eclipse’s Earthly Effect
Series of images from the Japanese MTSAT satellite showing a shadow on Earth during the total solar eclipse on November…
Explore the Stellar Neighborhood with New Milky Way Visualization
Screenshot from 100,000 Stars Want to explore the Milky Way? A new visualization tool from Google called 100,000 Stars lets…
This Day in Space History: Apollo 12 and SCE to AUX
On this day in history, on November 14, 1969, Apollo 12 successfully launched to the Moon. But it wasn’t without…
Spacecraft Witnesses Solar Eclipse x 3
On the ground, the total solar eclipse of November 13/14, 2012 was only visible to only to observers in northern…
New Rogue Planet Found, Closest to our Solar System
This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/Nick Risinger/R. Saito/VVV Consortium Rogue planets – also…