New Study Says Earth Avoided a “Carbon Overdose” During Formation
A new study has indicated that the depletion of carbon from Earth-forming materials may have been essential to life here…
Elon Musk Reveals Further Plans to Colonize Mars and Make Aerospace Transit a Reality
At the International Astronautical Congress this week, Elon Musk revealed his plans to conduct missions to Mars and provide aerospace…
New Study Sheds Light on How Earth and Mars Formed
A new study by researchers from the University of Bristol has shed new light on how the planets like Earth…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Captures Lovely Blue Marble during Gravity Assist Swing-by to Asteroid Bennu
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely ‘Blue Marble’ image of our Home Planet during…
LIGO and Virgo Observatories Detect Black Holes Colliding
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new…
Hey Citizen Scientists! Help NASA Analyze Images Taken from the Space Station
Calling all citizen scientists, geography buffs, fans of the International Space Station and those who love that orbital perspective! CosmoQuest…
Rosetta Team Finds New, Final Image Hiding in the Data
ESA scientists have found one additional image from the Rosetta spacecraft hiding in the telemetry. This new image was found…
Weekly Space Hangout -Sept 27, 2017: Dr. Jason Schneiderman of NASA’s HERA Mission
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
Russia Says They’ll Be Pitching in on the Deep Space Gateway
The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to…
New Study Provides Explanation for Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice
A new study by members of the New Horizons team has provided an explanation for Pluto's mysteries "bladed terrain".