Jason Major
The Rosy Remains of a Star’s Final Days
Stars like our Sun can last for a very long time (in human terms, anyway!) somewhere in the neighborhood of…
Warning Shot: a “Bullet Hole” on the ISS
Canadian astronaut and Expedition 35 commander Chris Hadfield just shared this photo on Twitter, showing a portion of one of…
NASA Scientists Soar Over a Mini Ice Cap
It's quite a long way from Mars, but I can't help but be reminded of the Red Planet's ice-covered north…
The White House Releases a Report on Space Weather
We live on a planet dominated by weather. But not just the kind that comes in the form of wind,…
This Spot on Mercury (Almost) Never Goes Dark
Mercury, traveling in its 88-day-long orbit around the Sun with basically zero axial tilt, has many craters at its poles…
Saturn’s Little Wavemaking Moon
Captured on January 15, this narrow-angle Cassini image shows an outer portion of Saturn's A ring on the left and…
Cosmic C.S.I.: Searching for the Origins of the Solar System in Two Grains of Sand
"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches…
50 Amazing Facts About Earth
Do you know how much material falls onto Earth from space every day? How many different species there are in…
New Scripps Research Ship Will Honor Astronaut Sally Ride
Dr. Sally K. Ride, physicist, NASA astronaut, and first American woman to fly in space, will be honored with a…
Researchers May Have Finally Detected a Dark Matter Particle
Dark matter: it's invisible, it's elusive, it's controversial... and it's everywhere -- in the Universe, yes, but especially in the…