April 7, 2016 Exploding stars leave radioactive clues beneath Earth's oceans During the past 10 million years, a series of stars in the Earth’s neighborhood exploded, raining a radioactive form of iron onto our planet that left its signature in the material beneath the world’s oceans.
March 30, 2016 Did an asteroid slam into Jupiter? If something slams into Jupiter and two strangers a thousand miles away from each other film it, does it count?
March 29, 2016 Planet discovery fuels interest in mythical world of deep space When astronomers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena announced in January that they’d discovered a giant planet in our distant solar system, they ignited a frenzied debate over whether it was really out there, far beyond Neptune.
March 26, 2016 'Embryo' planet plowed into Earth, creating moon ... and stayed Scientists already know that roughly 4.5 billion years ago planet Earth was violently smacked into by another mass—Theia, a so-called "planetary embryo" that was still forming and may have been just as large as Earth.
March 25, 2016 Saturn's moons may have formed during the reign of the dinosaurs Saturn’s icy moons, as well as its famous rings may only be hundred million years old, suggesting they formed during the reign of many dinosaurs.
March 24, 2016 NASA’s Orion spacecraft could make ‘Interstellar’ a reality Christopher Nolan’s epic movie “Interstellar” is set to open next week…but already NASA’s Orion spacecraft is well on its way to making this sort of space exploration beyond the Moon a reality.
March 24, 2016 NASA finds highest peak on Saturn's largest moon Titan For mountaineers looking for a fresh challenge, may I suggest Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
March 23, 2016 NASA releases jaw-dropping images of Ceres bright spots NASA's Dawn mission has gotten the most detailed images of the Occator Crater on Ceres, given scientists their best view yet of the dwarf planet’s bright spots.
March 7, 2016 ExoMars mission set to land on the red planet later this year The first mission of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program will blast off for the Red Planet next week.
March 4, 2016 NASA finds mountain range the size of Alaska on Pluto Scientists with NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft have discovered a mountain range on Pluto that is a bit larger than the state of Alaska and may be covered with methane-infused snow.
