Jupiter is humongous
Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it Dave Mosher From Business Insider You’d be right to doubt whether or not Jupiter actually orbits the sun, or if you could survive the planet’s sickening radiation belt,…
The Perseids are back
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best cosmic light shows of the year. Here’s why you need to see it this week. By Miriam Kramer From Mashable Each August, the Earth passes through a stream of dust and…
Mars Rover decides rocks to shoot
Curiosity rover can shoot lasers at any rock it wants By Sean Buckley From engadget NASA gives its Mars rover the ability to choose what rocks to analyze. Is there anything cooler than sending a robot to Mars to shoot…
This weird hexagon on Saturn has puzzled scientists for decades
By Ali Sundermier From Business Insider Thirty years ago, scientists discovered an intriguing structure on Saturn’s north pole. Nothing even resembling this structure has ever been seen on any other planet … in the entire universe. The six-sided structure, nicknamed…
Why is NASA sending its astronauts to the bottom of the ocean?
By Joseph Dussault, Christian Science Monitor From Business Insider On Thursday [21], NASA sent a team of astronauts and scientists more than 60 feet below sea level for a 16-day underwater expedition. NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 21, or NEEMO, is…
Extreme arctic temperatures become the new norm
By Paul McGowan From The Carbon Wars A group of scientists studying a broad range of Arctic systems — from sea ice to permafrost to the Greenland ice sheet — gathered in D.C. Wednesday to lay out just how extreme…
ISS installs networking tech that may soon connect the whole Solar System
By Devin Coldewey From TechCrunch When you really need to get a signal in from Pluto, a direct connection isn’t always possible. Oh sure, when it’s a big project like New Horizons, you can make sure the line is clear…
Newborn exoplanet might be the youngest ever observed
By Andrew Dalton From engadget NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has made another interesting cosmic discovery, the space agency reports this week. The youngest, fully formed exoplanet ever observed has been spotted just 500 light-years from Earth in the K2–33 star…
Astronaut in space snaps dramatic photo of the full moon caught in a sunset
Astronaut in space snaps dramatic photo of the full moon caught in a sunset BY MIRIAM KRAMER From Mashable NASA astronaut Jeff Williams captured an incredible photo of the full moon just above the horizon as the sun set from the…
Pluto’s atmosphere
Pluto’s atmosphere takes center stage in new NASA photo BY MIRIAM KRAMER A new photo of Pluto’s atmosphere makes the invisible visible. The new image, taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July, shows the blue ring of the dwarf…
