Watch: NASA Animation Reveals the Dark Side of the Moon

Watch: NASA Animation Reveals the Dark Side of the Moon

The video includes images delivered by the DSCOVR satellite

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 7th, 2015
NASA's August 26 Orion Test Flight Will Purposely End in Failure

NASA's August 26 Orion Test Flight Will Purposely End in Failure

Two of the spacecraft's parachutes will not deploy

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 1st, 2015
Hubble Witnesses Dying Star's Final Moments, Delivers Stunning Image

Hubble Witnesses Dying Star's Final Moments, Delivers Stunning Image

The dying star has given birth to a planetary nebula

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • August 1st, 2015
NASA Releases Video of Mammoth Asteroid That Flew by Us on July 24

NASA Releases Video of Mammoth Asteroid That Flew by Us on July 24

The space rock comprises two lobes, resembles a peanut

NASA Map Reveals the Geography of Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA Map Reveals the Geography of Dwarf Planet Ceres

The map is based on data provided by the Dawn spacecraft

Watch: How Sunlight Jerks Asteroids Around

Watch: How Sunlight Jerks Asteroids Around

Video explains how sunlight influences asteroids' orbit

NASA's Mars Orbiter Readies to Welcome the InSight Lander

NASA's Mars Orbiter Readies to Welcome the InSight Lander

InSight should reach Mars and land on its surface in 2016

NASA Releases Space View of Remote Russian Volcanoes

NASA Releases Space View of Remote Russian Volcanoes

The volcanoes were photographed by the crew aboard the ISS

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 28th, 2015
NASA Shares 1977 Message to Aliens on SoundCloud

NASA Shares 1977 Message to Aliens on SoundCloud

The message was carried into space by the Voyager probes

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 28th, 2015
Hubble Spies on Dwarf Galaxy 60 Million Light-Years Away

Hubble Spies on Dwarf Galaxy 60 Million Light-Years Away

The galaxy is about 10 times smaller than our Milky Way

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 27th, 2015
NASA Scientist: Asteroid Bennu Definitely Packs Organic Materials

NASA Scientist: Asteroid Bennu Definitely Packs Organic Materials

Bennu was discovered in 1999, NASA will soon visit it

  • Nature
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 25th, 2015
Billion-Year-Old Collapsed Volcano Revealed in Satellite Image

Billion-Year-Old Collapsed Volcano Revealed in Satellite Image

The ancient volcano was imaged by the Landsat 8 satellite

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 24th, 2015
Earth 2.0 Found: Astronomers Zoom In on Our Planet's Older Cousin

Earth 2.0 Found: Astronomers Zoom In on Our Planet's Older Cousin

The newly discovered orb sits merely 1,400 light-years away

Wind-Powered Robots Will Probably Be Sent to Jupiter

Wind-Powered Robots Will Probably Be Sent to Jupiter

Research for Jupiter can have a vast applicability

Earth Imaged from 1 Million Miles (1.6 Million Kilometers) Away

Earth Imaged from 1 Million Miles (1.6 Million Kilometers) Away

The stunning image was delivered by the DSCOVR satellite

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 23rd, 2015
Yet Another Mountain Range Discovered on Dwarf Planet Pluto

Yet Another Mountain Range Discovered on Dwarf Planet Pluto

New Horizons imaged the peaks during its flyby of the orb

Sorry Not Sorry, Pluto Doesn’t Deserve Being Called a Planet

Sorry Not Sorry, Pluto Doesn’t Deserve Being Called a Planet

Astronomers weren’t just being mean when they demoted it

 
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