December 26, 2018 ‘Potentially hazardous’ hippo-shaped asteroid a mile long skims past Earth A rogue asteroid shaped like a wading hippo has just skimmed past Earth.
December 26, 2018 Why Mars mania will reach an all-time high in 2019 Among the celebrities in our solar system, Mars is by far the undisputed superstar – the Tom Hanks of planets.
December 22, 2018 Here's why space travel will be even more amazing (and important) in 2019 It’s well known that if something goes out of style, you only need to wait several decades for it to return. That certainly applies to manned space exploration, which, after fading from the headlines in the late eighties, is poised to roar back to life in 2019. But there is one glaring difference I see in the comeback and one huge reason why it matters.
December 21, 2018 Christmas on Mars? Spacecraft captures 50-mile-wide icy crater on the Red Planet A winter wonderland sits in the middle of a sandy Martian surface — at least, that's the story new images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) from the Red Planet seem to tell.
December 21, 2018 ‘Refrigerator-sized’ meteor zooms over Minnesota in one of the ‘biggest events of the year’ Late-night stargazers in Cambridge, Minnesota and beyond may have noticed a massive fireball that streaked across the sky earlier this week.
December 21, 2018 Apollo 8 astronauts recount NASA's epic first mission to the Moon On the morning of Dec. 21, 1968 NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off atop a Saturn V rocket from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center on humanity's first journey to another world.
December 21, 2018 Saturn's rings are disappearing, NASA warns Saturn’s famous rings are vanishing, so enjoy them while they last. According to NASA scientists, the rings– which are made of mostly of ice and rock, some chunks which are as big as a house– will be completely gone in less than 100 million years.
December 21, 2018 Walt Disney deserves credit for our progress on the Moon and Mars – not just Mickey Mouse If the creator of Mickey Mouse had never been born, we might not have landed men on the Moon or sent robots to Mars. As a boy, Walt Disney was fascinated with the futuristic tales of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. As an adult, his passion for the future intensified.
December 20, 2018 Tomb raiders 'spotted' from space as satellite data reveals looting of ancient sites Scientists are using high-resolution satellite imagery to identify places where looters have been ransacking ancient tombs.
December 20, 2018 NASA's InSight Mars Lander 'listens' for marsquakes on the Red Planet NASA's InSight Mars Lander has deployed its first instrument, a seismometer, on the surface of the Red Planet.
