Outer Space
The Ten Best Science Books of 2018
These titles explore the wide-ranging implications of new discoveries and experiments, while grounding them in historical context
This Is How Much Starlight the Universe Has Produced
4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 photons over 13.7 billion years
Asteroid Sample-Return Mission Arrives to Collect Primordial Rocks of the Solar System
As the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at its target asteroid Bennu, scientists on the ground prepare for a new bounty of planetary samples
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found on International Space Station Toilet
The bacteria do not currently pose a risk to astronauts, but that could change as the microbes adapt to their environment
Meet Scott Bolton, the Visionary Behind the NASA Mission to Jupiter
The Juno project will take on the mysteries of the gas giant that may in turn help us understand our own planet’s origins
Watch NASA Land the InSight Spacecraft on Mars
The InSight lander has successfully touched down on Mars
New Catalogue Describes Everything We’ve Sent Into Space
Entries include Doritos’ advertisement, Klingon Opera invitation, Beatles song
NASA Will Attempt Its Eighth Mars Landing on Monday
Touching down on the surface of the Red Planet is one of the most difficult engineering challenges ever attempted, and InSight is about to give it a go
Massive Impact Crater Found Under Greenland's Ice
Radar scans and sediment samples indicate a large meteorite blasted through the ice sheet between 3 million and 12,000 years ago
Astronomers Discover Second-Closest Known Exoplanet
The planet, a frozen Super-Earth, orbits Bernard's Star about six light-years away
AOL Co-Founder Steve Case Talks With Smithsonian Geologist John Grant About the Search for Life on Mars
In the near future, we are going to know if life exists elsewhere in the universe
Juno's Latest Photo of Jupiter Is Breathtaking
The image, processed from JunoCam's raw data, shows storms and winds in the planet's Northern Temperate Belt
Gravity Map Reveals Tectonic Secrets Beneath Antartica's Ice
Satellite data shows East and West Antarctica have very different geologic histories
Did a Huge Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Vietnam War?
Dozens of underwater devices seemed to explode without cause in 1972
Astrophysicist Michelle Thaller on Understanding Our Place in the Universe
Autodesk vice president Brian Mathews talks with the NASA science communicator about the search for life on other planets and why it’s important
Researchers Can Now Monitor Whales Via Satellite
The latest high resolution satellites can pick out whales surfacing in huge swaths of ocean, which will aid in conservation
The Milky Way Ate One of Its Neighbors 10 Billion Years Ago
Star data shows we gobbled up a galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus about 1/4 the size of the Milky Way, leaving behind telltale signs of the merger
Kepler Space Telescope, Revealer of New Worlds, Officially Shuts Down After Historic Mission
Launched in 2009, Kepler discovered thousands of new exoplanets before finally running out of fuel earlier this month
Hanging Out in Space Deforms Brain Tissue, New Cosmonaut Study Suggests
While gray matter shrinks, cerebrospinal fluid increases. What's more: These changes do not completely resolve once back on Earth.
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