Source: National Geographic Outside, the sinking sun is coloring the autumnal sky a brilliant lavender, a rich hue that lingers over a vast blanket of ice. Here, off the northern coast of Greenland, the Arctic Ocean is masquerading as land, a snowy patchwork of smooth ice floes and abrupt, jagged piles of crystalline debris. Only
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.
Are we alone? Humans have a lot of questions about alien life. But those beings, if they exist, likely have some questions of their own about humans, queries we may want to answer before we find any life beyond Earth.
Oxygen on Mars behaves in ways scientists can’t seem to explain yet, according to NASA.
A main-sequence hypervelocity star traveling at huge speeds after being ejected by Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, was spotted by an international team of astronomers.
US corporation says its lunar lander concept would reduce ‘complexity and risk’ of Nasa mission
Although it’s just 270 miles across — about as big as Alabama — the asteroid Hygeia has surprised astronomers by being round.
A Japanese spacecraft left a distant asteroid on Wednesday, starting its yearlong journey home after successfully completing its mission to gather soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, the country’s space agency said.
Tiny fragments of an asteroid located more than 200 million miles from Earth could hold the key to discovering the origins of the world’s oceans, according to researchers at a Scottish university.
Seeing the ozone hole permanently vanish won’t be for another decade, but for 2019, it has sealed itself up in near-record time
