Jason Major
Saturn to Shed its Spooky Spokes for Summer
As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA's Cassini spacecraft is along for…
Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers
During its "seven minutes of terror" landing on August 6, 2012, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things…
A New Look at Saturn’s Northern Hexagon
Freshly delivered from Cassini's wide-angle camera, this raw image gives us another look at Saturn's north pole and the curious…
The Secret of the Stars
"Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity." Well look at that, it's…
One Astronaut’s Kids Get a Valentine’s Day View of Dad’s Office in Orbit
It's a wonderful thing for children to look up to their fathers, but some kids have to look a little…
New Horizons’ Pluto Stamp is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
A little over a year ago Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, announced the team's plans to…
Pluto May Soon Have a Moon Named Vulcan (Thanks to William Shatner)
The votes have been tallied and the results are in from the SETI Institute's Pluto Rocks Poll: "Vulcan" and "Cerberus"…
Bright Jets Blast Out from a Newborn Star
Like very young humans, very young stars also tend to make a big mess out of the stuff around them…
Take a Spin Around Mercury
Created by the MESSENGER mission team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington,…
A Parting Look at 2012 DA14: Was This a Warning Shot from Space?
Just as anticipated, on Friday, Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed us by, zipping 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) above Earth's surface…