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NASA’s 60th anniversary logo, created by graphic artist Matthew Skeins. NASA is marking its 60th anniversary year with a new commemorative logo. The aviation and space agency revealed the design  on its website on Wednesday (Jan. 3). “NASA will mark the 60th anniversary of its establishment as a U.S. government agency,” a NASA press release said […]

A global view of Mars. A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters posits that Mars formed in what today is the Asteroid Belt , roughly one and a half times as far from the sun as its current position, before migrating to its present location.  The assumption has generally been that […]

X-ray light from the Perseus cluster of galaxies may finally reveal the true nature of one of the most mysterious substances in the cosmos: dark matter. Dark matter is a bizarre material that does not emit light or energy, yet is thought to make up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe. Researchers […]

With the ISS partners committed to operating the station only through 2024, a new report calls on NASA to develop transition plans for the growing amount of research performed there. WASHINGTON — With utilization of the International Space Station reaching a maximum, and with its long-term future uncertain, a recent report recommends that NASA develop […]

The space around Earth is contested and congested. WASHINGTON — The public’s idea of a war in space is almost entirely a product of Hollywood fantasy: Interstellar empires battling to conquer the cosmos, spaceships going head to head in pitched dogfights The reality of how nations will fight in space  is much duller and blander. […]

Artist’s illustration of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab in Earth orbit. A 9-ton Chinese space lab will fall out of the sky soon — and if you predict exactly when, you can win some swag. The Aerospace Corp.’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) is sponsoring a guessing game about the death day of […]

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson speaks to the Senate Armed Service Committee Dec. 7, 2017. WASHINGTON — A controversial shakeup of the military space organization  mandated by Congress will get underway in 2018. Details of how and when the changes will unfold are slowly emerging. A laundry list of provisions in the National Defense […]

Water vapor across the globe on Jan. 3, 2018. Just when you thought the weather couldn’t get any worse, The Washington Post hits us with “bomb cyclone.” That’s right: Forecasters suggest this “bomb” will make the U.S. East Coast unbearable for many. How does a system reach bomb-cyclone status? Its atmospheric pressure must drop so […]

An artist’s illustration depicting a hypothetical dust ring orbiting Tabby’s star, more formally known as KIC 846. Well, we always knew the alien-megastructure idea was a long shot. E.T. has nothing to do with the bizarre dimming events of the mysterious object known as Tabby’s star , a new study reports. “Dust is most likely […]

Christian Bale has confirmed that he was previously in talks for a role  in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and despite not coming to terms he hopes to be in a future “Star Wars” film. Bale was rumored to be in talks for the Solo role that ultimately went to Woody Harrelson. “Yes, [it was] very […]

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks today (Jan. 3), but don’t get your hopes up for a spectacular sky show. The Quadrantids are flaring up on the heels of Monday’s (Jan. 1) Full Wolf supermoon , the brightest full moon of 2018. Most of the meteors will therefore get drowned out by the glare of Earth’s […]

The loss of a $45 million Russian weather satellite last November was due to human error, a high-ranking official said, because the satellite’s programming was set for the wrong launch site. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told Russian state television that the programming for the satellite, called Meteor-M No.2-1, included instructions based on the […]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently on its way to the asteroid Bennu, captured this color composite image of Earth and the moon on Oct. 2, 2017. About halfway through its two-year trek to the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took some stunning images of Earth and the moon as it whizzed past its home […]