Helio and You: Seasons on Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Earth has four seasons – spring, summer, fall, and winter. Other planets (including Jupiter and the other giant…
Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe – NASA Science
Winter winds lofted clouds of dust from the Sahara Desert, carrying it north toward the Mediterranean and dispersing…
The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth
For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking…
The Galaxy Next Door – NASA Science
From the International Space Station, astronauts gaze upon a vast sea of stars, the view almost entirely unencumbered…
Exotic spaceplanes that failed to take off
With their thrilling sci-fi aesthetics, spaceplanes are an attractive alternative to rockets. They are attractive in practical ways,…
Incredible photos of Perseid meteor shower captured in Wales
Stargazers in Wales were treated to a dazzling display on Monday night as the Perseid meteor shower lit…
Soviet-era Venus probe plunges back to Earth after 53 years
Russian space agency Roscosmos on Saturday said a Soviet space probe that took off in March 1972 to…
A spacecraft from the 1970s could crash-land on Earth in May
A Soviet spacecraft that has been circling Earth for over 50 years is set to reenter the planet’s…
Testing in the Clouds: NASA Flies to Improve Satellite Data
In February, NASA’s ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.…
Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here
A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample…