Jason Major
Watch the Northern Lights Dance and Shimmer in “Silent Storms”
Aurorae were once believed to be warring clans of spirit soldiers, the skyward ghosts of virgin women, or the glow of fires…
How Sentinel Will Hunt for Hidden Asteroids
Asteroids of various sizes whiz past our planet all the time. Some we know about, but many we don't, and…
Astronomers Find Evidence of a Strange Type of Star
One has never been spotted for sure in the wild jungle of strange stellar objects out there, but astronomers now…
Stunning Snapshots from Space Courtesy of Reid Wiseman
On May 28 the crew of Expedition 40/41 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, their Soyuz TMA-13M arriving at the International Space Station…
Will We Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? You Can Bet On It.
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
Selfies from Around the World Combine to Make a Portrait of Earth
On Earth Day, April 22, NASA invited people around the world to share their "selfies" on social media sites like…
ESA Marks 50 Years of Cooperative Space Innovation
In 1964 the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) and the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) were founded, on February 29 and March…
Watch the Trailer for “The Last Man on the Moon”
On December 14, 1972, at about 5:40 a.m. GMT, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan returned to the lunar…
Space Station’s Veggies Are “Grow” to Launch
In what could become the world's first orbiting salad bar, NASA's Veggie experiment was initiated on May 8 after a successful (if…
Scientists Now Suspect More Sea Level Rise from Greenland’s Glaciers
Greenland's glaciers may contribute more to future sea level rise than once thought, despite earlier reports that their steady seaward…