March 8, 2018 Astronaut Scott Kelly: My incredible year in space and the 'crazy ride' back to Earth Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly became the first American to spend 12 consecutive months in space when he completed an epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station in 2016. So what was it like to spend a year in space?
March 8, 2018 NASA releases 'unearthly' pictures of Jupiter, showing 9 massive cyclones with Category 5 hurricane wind speeds NASA's Juno probe, which launched towards Jupiter nearly seven years ago, has finally given us images inside the biggest planet in our Solar System.
March 7, 2018 Scorching Saturn-size world has 3 times the water of ringed planet A Saturn-size gas giant exoplanet orbiting close to its star has three times as much water in its atmosphere as Saturn itself, researchers have found.
March 5, 2018 'Elusive' Mercury makes an appearance this month If there is one thing that has bothered me over my 50-some years as an amateur astronomer, it is the way that most astronomy books give the impression that the planet Mercury is very difficult, if not almost impossible to see.
March 1, 2018 Superflare blasts Proxima b, the nearest exoplanet, dimming hopes of life The rocky planet circling the closest star to the sun got hammered by a superpowerful flare last year, a new study reports.
February 27, 2018 Could methane on Saturn's moon Enceladus be a sign of life? Some hardy Earth microbes could likely survive in the Saturn moon Enceladus' buried ocean, gobbling up hydrogen produced by interactions between seawater and rock, a new study suggests.
February 20, 2018 Jupiter's Great Red Spot will evaporate in little more than 10 years, astronomers say When it was first measured in the 1800s, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was an enormous four times bigger than the Earth.
February 19, 2018 A giant storm on Neptune is disappearing and for the first time scientists are able to see it A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch.
February 16, 2018 Scientists find nearly 100 new 'exoplanets' in hunt for life in space Scientists have discovered nearly 100 new 'exoplanets' in the search for Earth-like planets that could support life.
