Space
- Climate
ICESat-2 measures ice and more from space
ICESat-2, launched in September 2018, will detect changes in Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers. It also will monitor our planet’s forests and clear shallow waters.
- Space
There’s a snowman in space
The New Horizons spacecraft snapped pics of the space rock on New Year’s Day.
- Planets
China landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon
China just brought down a lander and rover on the far side of the moon. Let the science begin!
- Climate
Distant volcano could turn latest lunar eclipse dark red
The recent eruption of Anak Krakatau, an Indonesian volcano, could alter the color of this coming weekend’s lunar eclipse.
- Planets
Scientists Say: Exomoon
A moon that orbits a planet in our solar system in a moon. But a moon that orbits a planet outside our solar system? That’s an exomoon.
- Science & Society
Catch a ‘shooting star’ this month — and most others
The Geminid meteor shower is underway. Here’s how you can enjoy this amazing show in the night sky.
- Planets
Quake-scouting lander safely touches down on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has just arrived safely on the Martian surface. Its two year mission is to record any ‘Marsquakes’ and other signs of the planet’s geologic activity.
- Space
Scientists Say: Orbit
An orbit is the path one object in space takes around another, such as a planet, star or the center of an atom.
- Tech
Prepping for drone exploration of Mars
Twelve-year-old James Fagan, a budding engineer from Riverside, Calif., has built a wind tunnel. He uses it to test scale models of drones and other vehicles under Mars-like conditions.
- Physics
Scientists Say: Multiverse
The multiverse is an idea that there are many universes out there, including the one we live in. Each universe has an alternate reality.
- Space
R.I.P. Kepler, the planet-hunting telescope
It’s lights out for this spacecraft, after finding more than 2,700 exoplanets throughout our galaxy.
- Physics
Only a small fraction of space has been searched for aliens
In their hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI searches have only scouted an area the equivalent of a hot tub out of Earth’s oceans, a new calculation indicates.
