Space

More Stories in Space

  1. Planets

    Scientists Say: Regolith

    This sandlike dust blankets planets, asteroids and other rocky surfaces of our solar system, including our own planet.

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  2. Space

    The biggest discoveries of Voyagers — NASA’s most distant explorers

    Voyager 1 and 2 left Earth in 1977 to fly by the outer planets. Nearly 50 years later, these spacecraft are still transforming our knowledge of space.

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  3. Space

    Let’s learn about the International Space Station

    Astronauts on the space station have gathered data on everything from climate change to dark matter.

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  4. Planets

    A peek into a stellar nursery has revealed six baby giant worlds

    Images of six Jupiter-sized worlds taken by the James Webb Space Telescope offer clues to how planets and stars form.

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  5. Space

    Let’s learn about supernovas

    Supernovas are spectacular stellar explosions that sprinkle heavy elements throughout the universe.

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  6. Space

    Microscopic black holes may be flying through our solar system

    These flybys could jostle the orbits of planets and satellites as teeny black holes whiz by us once a decade or so.

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  7. Space

    The moon has new tales to share, some from its secretive far side

    Ongoing observations and new lunar rock samples, including the first from its far side, should point to how both the moon and our Earth evolved.

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  8. Planets

    Scientists Say: Theia

    Clues about this ancient protoplanet's catastrophic end may have been entombed in Earth's lower mantle for billions of years.

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  9. Space

    Why are scientists suddenly interested in UFOs?

    For decades, science mostly ignored UFOs. Then in 2015 Navy pilots started reporting them. The U.S. government enlisted scientists to investigate.

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