The Moon Was Formed in a Smashup Between Earth and a Near Twin
But solving one puzzle of lunar origins has raised another linked to the abundances of tungsten in the primordial bodies
Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?
NASA’s chief of human exploration thinks we’ll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet
An Easter Typhoon and Galactic Ghosts Are Among These Spacey Visions
Astronauts spy a colossal eye and Hubble sees echoes of quasars past in our picks for the week’s best space images
A Rocket Blessing and a Cubist Planet Are Among These Celestial Sights
Russia sends off the one-year crew and a Saturn probe gets artistic in our picks for this week’s best space-related pictures
An Asteroid Boulder Will Be A Stepping Stone on the Journey to Mars
NASA announces details in its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit
A Moon Landing in Virtual Reality, Bookniture and Other Wild Ideas That Just Got Funded
Could a new material that uses static charge to stick to any surface spell doom for Post-it notes?
A Rainbow Eclipse and X-Ray Fireworks Are Among These Cosmic Treats
A solar eclipse painted the cloudy U.K. skies and an explosion rocked a stellar corpse in our picks for this week’s best space images
Here’s What The Solar Eclipse Looked Like From Space
As they orbited the earth, a satellite and an astronaut captured another side of the sun’s disappearing act
Who Determined That the Sun Was a Star and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
Severe Solar Storm Paints the Sky Green on St. Patrick’s Day
A burst of particles from the sun is hitting our atmosphere and lighting up the night as far south as Illinois
This Alien Color Catalog May Help Us Spot Life on Other Planets
A digital library of reflectance spectra from microbes could be a powerful tool for spotting signs of extraterrestrials
A Solar Flare and a Volcano Blizzard Are Among These Stellar Shots
An X-class explosion and a snowy satellite image feature among our picks for the week’s best space images
The Galaxy May Be Way Bigger Than We Thought
New data analysis suggests that the Milky Way may be 50-percent larger than previously believed
Catch a Glimpse of the Zodiacal Light Show This Month
For some in the northern hemisphere, a celestial treat sometimes referred to as “false dusk” is lighting up the night
These Cosmic Visions Include a Mars Ocean and a Supernova Quartet
The red planet’s deep blue sea and a rare Einstein cross feature among the week’s best space images
Dawn Has Arrived at Ceres
Downlink connection confirms that the spacecraft is in orbit around the dwarf planet
These Dragonflies Helped an Astronomer Find Ghostly New Galaxies
A Yale scientist set out to capture the insect’s full lifecycle and ended up discovering hidden wonders of the cosmos
These Cosmic Eye-Poppers Include a Technicolor Comet and an Impossible Black Hole
An ancient monster and a turquoise bay feature among our picks for the week’s best space pictures
These Stellar Wonders Include a Red Aurora and a Billowing Black Hole
A light show over Montana and an eruption snapped by a satellite feature among our picks for the week’s best space images
Send Atomic Clocks to Space to Find Gravitational Waves
A new breed of the hyper-accurate clocks could help scientists detect the elusive ripples in space-time faster and cheaper
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