Solar System
Icy Hot: Europa’s Frozen Crust Could Be Warmer Than We Thought
All the worlds may be ours except Europa but that only makes the ice-covered moon of Jupiter all the more intriguing. Beneath…
SpaceX Dragon Carrying New Inflatable Room Captured and Mated to Space Station
A SpaceX commercial cargo freighter jam packed with more than three and a half tons of research experiments, essential crew…
New Horizons Did Amazing Work Before Even Arriving At Pluto
New Horizons collected 3 years of data during it's mission to Pluto and beyond, and that data is telling us…
Mysterious Pull On Cassini Probe May Help Find Planet Nine
Small perturbations in the orbit of the Cassini probe provide further evidence for the existence of Planet Nine.
New Horizons Snaps Amazing 3-D View of Pluto’s Mysterious ‘Bladed’ Terrain
It’s time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in…
Did the Sun Steal Planet Nine?
One of the biggest new mysteries in our Solar System is the purported presence of a large and distant "Planet Nine,"…
Opportunity Discovers Dust Devil, Explores Steepest Slopes on Mars
A “beautiful dust devil” was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA’s long lived Opportunity rover…
The Moon’s Other Axis
The Moon had a different axis of rotation billions of years ago. The culprit? Volcanoes.
High Albedo Points To Huge Collision Forming Plutonian System
Pluto's moons were likely formed as a result of a collision between Pluto and a Pluto-sized object, about 4 billion…
First American to Live on ISS for 3 Long Missions Arrives after Soyuz Night Launch and Docking
The first American to become a three-time, long-term resident of the International Space Station (ISS) has just arrived at the…