Ever wondered what happens when a cosmic snowball strikes the sun at 300 miles per second? Well, your curiosity is about to be rewarded … Witness the awesome display captured by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) that seems to be some errant alien missile targeting the sun. This class
The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is now prepping for its final flight on June 28, the last ever in the space shuttle program. After this, the United States is earthbound, with no alternative way to reach its segment of the International Space Station (ISS), not to mention other
Scientists used to think that the huge sea of sand dunes at the Martian north pole—a sea the size of Texas—was fairly unchanging. But new NASA photos reveal avalanches caused by the Martian spring thaw. Photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the basalt sand dunes near the north
NASA’s awesomely named deep-space observatory, the Kepler Planet Hunter, has been designed to scour space for planets less massive than Earth. The latest data, released on February 2, is an astronomer’s dream come true: the Planet Hunter has tagged 1,235 objects as possible planets. That’s three times as many planets
