How Many Asteroids Are Out There?
Answer: a LOT. And there's new ones being discovered all the time, as this fascinating animation by Scott Manley shows.…
Hubble Goes to the eXtreme in Stunning New Deepest View Ever of the Universe
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small patch of sky…
Blowing a Super-duper Celestial Bubble
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
New ‘Sun-Skirting’ Comet Could Provide Dazzling Display in 2013
2013 is looking to be a promising year for potential naked-eye comets, as a new comet has been discovered that…
Bringing You There: Final Shuttle Flyby Over Kennedy Space Center
This will never be seen again. Last week, the remaining Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA 905) lofted a Space Shuttle into…
A New, Automatic 3-D Moon
Korolev lobate scarp on the Moon, in 3-D. Lobate scarps, a type of cliff,are found mostly in the highlands on…
Finding Life in All the Unlikely, Unexpected Places
Just one of several weather stations set up at Chott El Jerid, a Tunisian saltpan, measuring temperature, humidity, ultraviolet radiation,…
Want to Look Inside a Burning Rocket Engine?
Here's a bit of pretty amazing hobby rocket porn. Ben Krasnow walks us through -- in a rather matter-of-fact way…
Astrophoto: A Year of Mars Observations by Efrain Morales
Mars from July, 2011 to June 2012. Credit: Efrain Morales, Jaicoa Observatory Superman has nothing on this big "S" created…
Astronomers Discover Milky Way’s Hot Halo
Artist's illustration of a hot gas halo enveloping the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; NASA/CXC/Ohio State/A.Gupta et al.) Our…