A Smithsonian Expert Breaks Down the Science of Meteors
Meteor scientist Cari Corrigan says that the type of destruction wrought by today’s meteor explosion over Russia is exceedingly rare
An Asteroid Will Skim Right By the Earth on Friday Afternoon
The 147-foot-wide rock will pass a scant 17,200 miles from Earth’s surface, under the orbits of some telecom satellites
New Photos Show Stars on the Brink of Death and the Precipice of Life
Haunting images of spiral galaxy M106 and the stellar nursery of the Orion nebula capture the life cycle of stars
“Earth-Like” Exoplanets May Actually Be Mini-Neptunes
Many newly discovered exoplanets may not be able to shed their dense hydrogen atmospheres, making them unsuitable for life
The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space
The Building Blocks of Life May Have Come From Outer Space
Mona Lisa Travels by Laser, to Space And Back Again
To test the reaches of laser communication, NASA beamed a digital image of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait to a satellite orbiting the moon
Watch Jupiter “Kiss” the Moon Tonight
Tonight, night sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere can see Jupiter pass less than a finger’s width away from the waxing Moon
At Night, Giant Fields of Burning Natural Gas Make North Dakota Visibile From Space
Locals have a new nickname for their state. North Dakota: “Kuwait on the Prairie”
Star Trek Got Warp Speed All Wrong
Hold everything people. The blast of a star and light that happens in Star Trek when they jump to warp speed? Wrong! It wouldn’t look like that at all, according to some physicists
The ISS’s New Inflatable Room Could Pave the Way for Space Hotels
Set to launch in 2015, this new piece of the International Space Station is designed to be blown up like a balloon
NASA Drones to Study Stratosphere for Climate Change Clues
On Friday, the agency will send an unmanned aircraft 65,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean to gather data for use in climate change modeling
Doomed Satellite’s Final Act Was To Film the Moon’s Surface From Just 30,000 Feet Above
Get a jet airliner’s view of the surface of the Moon
The Fisher Space Pen Boldly Writes Where No Man Has Written Before
The Fisher Space Pen has been made famous by Apollo astronauts and Jerry Seinfeld. But just how does it work? And is NASA really spend millions making it?
You Can’t Throw a Rock in the Milky Way Without Hitting an Earth-Like Planet
A new estimate says there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
A 2.1 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals Water on Mars
Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
PHOTOS: Getting Ready for the World’s Largest Radio Telescope
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
Does Deep Space Travel Cause Alzheimer’s?
A new study indicates that the levels of radiation astronauts would experience over the course of a deep space mission could lead to dementia
Space Exploration and the End of an Era: Notable Deaths in 2012
Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, Roger Boisjoly and the shuttle program form this year’s late greats of space exploration
Do We Really Need to Take Vacations to Space?
The possibility of entering a sealed aircraft, buckling up and exiting the atmosphere in the name of leisure is nearing reality
Mythical Particles, Goldilocks Planets and More: Top 5 Surprising Scientific Milestones of 2012
From the Higgs Boson to the Curiosity rover, 2012 was a major year for science
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