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The Orionid Meteor Shower Will Light Up the Skies This Weekend

Debris shed by the legendary Halley's comet could make for an impressive meteor show
October 19, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

How the Moon Was Made

A new type of evidence found in lunar rocks indicates that an enormous collision between a young Earth and a Mars-sized object formed the moon
October 17, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Newly Discovered Comet, Headed Toward Earth, Could Shine as Bright as the Moon

Comet C/2012 S1(ISON) could become the brightest comet anyone alive has ever seen
September 28, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive in Outer Space?

A special adaptation allows the tiny animal known as the tardigrade to curl up into a dry, lifeless ball and survive for decades
September 11, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

NASA Sparks Its Imagination

Rovers that ride winds on Venus, robots that roll like tumbleweeds and other wild ideas for exploring space.
September 07, 2012 | By Randy Rieland

Your Last Chance to See a Blue Moon Until 2015 is Friday Night

The moon won't actually be blue in color, so where did this strange term originate?
August 29, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

What the Discovery of Hundreds of New Planets Means for Astronomy—and Philosophy

New telescopes are allowing us to look at space more accurately than ever – and what they uncover could change our world
September 2012 | By Timothy Ferris

The 5 Coolest Planets Orbiting Distant Stars

Of the hundreds of exoplanets discovered by scientists, we list of some of the most interesting
August 14, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

How Do You Tell Time on Mars? There’s an App for That

NASA has produced an app that helps scientists and amateurs alike keep track of time on the Red Planet
August 09, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Curiosity, NASA’s Most Advanced Rover Yet, Is About to Land on Mars

The mobile laboratory will learn about the red planet's climate and geology, hoping to determine whether it once could have supported life
August 02, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Should Pluto’s Planet Status Be Reinstated? Not Yet

The discovery of a fifth moon circling Pluto has some questioning where the "dwarf planet" category still applies to this faraway member of the Solar System
July 16, 2012 | By Sarah Zielinski

Mission to Mars: The Radiation Problem

NASA wouldn't opt to expose astronauts to a 19 percent increased risk of cancer, but there's no telling what a reality TV show would do
June 20, 2012 | By Sarah Zielinski

When Galaxies Collide: The Fate of the Milky Way

The Hubble Space Telescope shows that we're on a collision course with the nearby Andromeda galaxy—and set to crash in about 4 billion years
June 11, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

In Case You Missed It: the Transit of Venus

If you didn't have a chance to see yesterday's astronomical event, watch this NASA video to see what all the fuss is about
June 06, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Milky Way

Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe

What are those burning questions about the cosmos that still baffle astronomers today?
May 08, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Picture of the Week: Stephen Hawking in Zero Gravity

The renowned physicist enjoyed the sensation of weightlessness while 24,000 feet over the Atlantic
May 11, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

Next Stop, New York

Space shuttle Enterprise heads for Manhattan
April 27, 2012 | By airspacemag.com

Voyager record

What Is on Voyager’s Golden Record?

From a whale song to a kiss, the time capsule sent into space in 1977 had some interesting contents
April 23, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

Voyager Probes Not Out of the Solar System Just Yet

New data show that nearly 35 years after their launches, NASA's Voyager probes are now at the outermost reaches of the solar system
April 24, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

To the Asteroids and Beyond

A group of big-name tech billionaires wants to open up a new frontier in space--mining space rocks.
April 23, 2012 | By Randy Rieland

Fast Forward: The Dark Energy Camera

Get a sneak peak at the new project that will search for mysterious cosmic energies that drive our universe
May 2012 | By Mark Strauss

Billions of miles from Earth

Timothy Ferris on Voyagers' Never-Ending Journey

With the spacecraft poised to leave our solar system, the writer who helped compile the time capsules they carry reflects on our deepest foray into outer space
May 2012 | By Timothy Ferris

Picture of the Week: A Deep View of the Universe

A new survey of a slice of the distant reaches of the universe reveals 200,000 galaxies
March 30, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

NASA Spacecraft Samples a Snowing Moon

Saturn's Enceladus is spurting water vapor, organic material and salt—a microbe-friendly composition
March 28, 2012 | By K. Annabelle Smith

Low Earth Orbit

Space Garbage: The Dark Cloud Above

A mass of debris from satellites and space missions is orbiting our planet—and it may be growing all the time
January 26, 2012 | By Joseph Stromberg

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