A couple new selfies beamed back to Earth from NASA’s Curiosity rover show the intrepid Mars explorer looking like a social media star on the red planet. The new selfies were taken on May 11 as Curiosity posed at a … Read More
A photo taken by a Japanese spacecraft in orbit around Venus shows details of the mysterious world by night. Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft snapped this image, which shows the clouds of Venus, in infrared light earlier this year as … Read More
A cosmic coincidence produced an amazing image for a lucky photographer on the ground during a rare celestial alignment earlier this month. On May 9, Mercury passed in front of the sun, transiting our nearest star for the first time … Read More
A new mosaic pieced together by NASA scientists and captured by the New Horizons spacecraft shows off the most detailed view of Pluto many of us will ever see. The high-resolution mosaic shows a huge swath of Pluto as imaged … Read More
The planet Mars is closer than it has been since November 2005, so get ready for some serious skywatching this weekend. The red planet’s close proximity to Earth now makes it brighter than it usually is in orbit, giving even … Read More
A strong solar storm impacted Earth from Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning, and it produced some incredible auroras for observers with clear skies in high latitudes. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction … Read More
Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet’s atmosphere, means that Pluto shares some unexpected similarities with Earth. We have known about Pluto’s … Read More