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An Asteroid Will Hurtle Past Earth Tonight in Close Flyby
While the space rock poses no danger to our planet, such a close pass is uncommon for asteroids of this size
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A New Look at Old Data Suggests Europa Shoots Watery Plumes Into Space
Scientists made the surprising discovery by turning the powers of modern computing on 1997 data collected during the Galileo mission
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Lunar Dust Might Pose Severe Health Risks to Future Human Colonies on the Moon
Prolonged exposure to lunar dust can cause illnesses like bronchitis and cancer, according to a new study
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The Sun Will Produce a Beautiful Planetary Nebula When It Dies
A new model of stellar death shows our low-mass star has enough juice to produce a beautiful ring of gas and dust before winking out
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Five Things to Know About NASA’s InSight Mission to Mars
This Saturday, the craft will launch on its mission to search for clues about the Red Planet’s interior
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Comet “Snowstorm” Swirling in This Stunning GIF Is a Tricky Illusion
“Things are not quite as they seem,” explains astronomer Mark McCaughrean
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New Star Map Could Change Everything We Know About the Milky Way
The map includes 1.7 billion stars and is already revealing new details about star evolution and the formation of our galaxy
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Five Things to Know About NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Satellite
TESS will scan the skies in search of the next crop of exoplanets
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An Unexpected Asteroid Buzzed by Earth Last Sunday
The space rock is one of the largest ever to come in such close proximity to our planet
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Diamonds Trapped in Strange Meteorite Came From Solar System’s Earliest Planets
Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
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How to Catch a Glimpse of This Weekend’s Lyrid Meteor Shower
Conditions are expected to be favorable, and experts say the shower might produce as many as 18 meteors every hour
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Sci-Fi and Snakes Rule in New Official Names for Features on Pluto’s Largest Moon and Mercury
Stanley Kubrick and Octavia Butler are among the figures honored
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These Rare NASA Photos Were Saved From the Trash
The 1,500 press images up for sale cover the agency’s manned missions from 1961 to 1972
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NASA Sends Human Sperm to the International Space Station
Astronauts will study how microgravity affects the motility of the little swimmers
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Meet Icarus, The Most Distant Star Yet Detected
The blue supergiant lies 9 billion light-years away
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China’s Tiangong-1 Finally Crashes Back to Earth
Most of the craft likely burned up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere
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Scientists Thought All Galaxies Had Dark Matter, but They Just Found One Without It
The find defies the assumption that the mysterious matter is necessary for galaxy formation
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The Rockstar Geologist Who Mapped the Minerals of the Cosmos
A professor told Ursula Marvin she should learn to cook. Instead she chased down meteorites in Antarctica
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If Humans Want To Colonize Other Planets, We Need To Perfect Space Cuisine
At this year’s Future Con, researchers will describe a future of food in space that is anything but bland
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NASA Clean Room Storing Meteorite Samples Is Contaminated With Fungi
Contamination of the not-so-clean room could meddle with results
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