Cryovolcanism: Molten Ice on Pluto?

Global enhanced-color view of Pluto, with Wright Mons location indicated at bottom. This is an edited, lower resolution version of a high resolution enhanced-color view of Pluto to ... Continue Reading →

Fast Radio Bursts from Outer Space Detected by Scientists

Image: Parkes Radiotelescope, New South Wales, Australia, where all but one FRB was discovered Fast Radio Bursts, another first: This time the FRBs repeated! The report of Fast Radio ... Continue Reading →

Advanced LIGO Heard Gravitational Waves on Day One

Image: The LIGO Livingston [Louisiana] control room as it was during Advanced LIGO’s first observing run (O1). This panoramic was sewn together from several images. Image: Opened ... Continue Reading →

Infographic Depicts Pluto’s Complexity

NASA infographic shows Pluto’s terrain, atmosphere A complex picture has emerged with many unexpected features on Pluto.  The infographic below tells some of the story. One ... Continue Reading →

Nine Years after Launch, New Horizons Flies By Pluto

PLUTO!!! July 13, 2015 This image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons on July 13, 2015, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 766,000 ... Continue Reading →

SpaceX Mission Fails, Russia Offers Backup, and Vice Versa

VIDEO 3 min. 52 sec. Cape Canaveral: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes During the 7th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-7) Launch Watch this live video of the June 28, 2015 SpaceX Mission ... Continue Reading →

Build an App for Science: NASA SpaceAppsChallenges.

Crowdsourcing diagram attribution: By Dbrabham (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The 2015 Hackathon Is Over, But the Opportunity ... Continue Reading →

How Valid Is the Science behind Interstellar, the Movie?

Above image: A concept drawing by NASA showing the accretion lines and accretion disk from a black hole. Source: Wikimedia.org. Human travel over interstellar distances required ... Continue Reading →