Jason Major
Rosetta’s Philae Lander in Permanent Sleep
ESA's Philae lander, the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land on the surface of a comet and former piggyback partner to Rosetta,…
50 Years Ago We Got Our First Picture from the Moon
On this date half a century ago the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft made humanity's first-ever soft landing on the surface of…
Saturn’s Rings Continue to Surprise Scientists
If you try to apply simple common sense to how Saturn's rings really work you're going to be sorely mistaken:…
This is a Scale Model of the Solar System Like You’ve Never Seen Before
We've all seen illustrations of the Solar System. They're in our school textbooks, on posters, on websites, on t-shirts... in…
Watch the You-Know-What Out Of This New Trailer for The Martian
The second full trailer for 20th Century Fox's upcoming film The Martian dropped this morning and it looks like a…
Ride Along with New Horizons on its Pluto Flyby
On July 14, 2015, after nine and a half years journeying across the Solar System, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic…
Our Universe is Dying
Brace yourselves: winter is coming. And by winter I mean the slow heat-death of the Universe, and by brace yourselves I…
What Are These Strange Scarlet Streaks Spotted on Tethys?
Resembling what the skin on my arms looks like after giving my cat a bath, the surface of Saturn's moon…
Ceres Resembles Saturn’s Icy Moons
Ceres' topography is revealed in full (but false) color in a new map created from elevation data gathered by NASA's Dawn…
This is Our Planet From a Million Miles Away
This picture of our home planet truly is EPIC – literally! The full-globe image was acquired with NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (aka…