- Editorials
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 21st, 2015
NASA’s Europa Mission Explained
If there’s alien life on Europa, NASA vows to find it
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 18th, 2015
Watch: NASA's Europa Mission Explained
This moon of Jupiter might be hiding alien life
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 12th, 2015
Saturn's Outer Ring Is 7,000 Times Bigger than the Planet Itself
The ring was discovered by astronomers back in 2009
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 4th, 2015
Pluto's Moons Nix and Hydra Wobble Unpredictably in Their Orbits
The orbs' peculiar shape is partly to blame
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 3rd, 2015
NASA's Cassini Probe Returns Gorgeously Detailed Views of Hyperion
This moon of Saturn looks like an oversized sea sponge
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 2nd, 2015
Bizarre Bright Swirls on the Moon Were Probably Birthed by Comets
Comets crashing into the Moon, to be more precise
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- May 14th, 2015
A Pretty Big Asteroid Will Be Flying by Earth Today, May 14
On the bright side, the space rock will keep a polite distance of 6.3 million miles (10 million kilometers)
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 29th, 2015
Saturn's Moon Hyperion Can Easily Be Mistaken for a Sea Sponge
Gorgeously detailed image produced by the Cassini spacecraft shows the celestial body is oddly porous
- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 17th, 2015
Young Earth Gobbled Up a Mercury Lookalike, New Study Claims
Scientists say it was this Mercury-like object that seeded Earth with the elements it needed to birth a magnetic field
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 9th, 2015
Our Moon Formed from a Massive, Smoldering Cloud of Debris
New research paper explains why the geological profile of our planet and that of its natural satellite are oddly alike
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 6th, 2015
Humongous Lava Tubes Might Be Lurking Just Beneath the Moon's Surface
Study reveals lava tubes big enough to fit cities inside them could survive over the millennia on our natural satellite
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- April 3rd, 2015
Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon, Sports a Huge Bulge at Its Equator
The bulge is about the size of Ecuador, towers over the moon's surface at half the height of Mount Kilimanjaro
- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 19th, 2015
It Rained Buckets of Iron on Young Earth, New Study Finds
This discovery explains why our planet's mantle packs a heck lot of this chemical compound, scientists argue
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 17th, 2015
New Crater on the Moon Named After Aviator Amelia Earhart
The Earhart crater, whose discovery was announced this past Monday, measures about 124 miles (200 kilometers) across
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 13th, 2015
Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon, Hides a Massive Ocean Under Its Crust
NASA scientists get their hands on the best evidence yet that an underground saltwater ocean is lurking on Ganymede
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 11th, 2015
A Total Eclipse of the Sun Will Happen This Coming March 20
The bad news is this awesome cosmic event will be visible in all its glory only from the North Atlantic Ocean
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 28th, 2015
Life Might Be Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan, Just Not as We Know It
Scientists piece together a model of a cell membrane that could form and survive in Titan's liquid methane seas