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A map of damage in and around Mexico City caused by the magnitude 7.1 Raboso earthquake of Sept. 19, 2017. Color variations from yellow to red indicate increasingly more significant ground surface change. The map was produced by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology, based on data gathered by […]

This is a species of silicon-based life (humans, by comparison, are carbon-based) that prefers to feed on rocks. In a moving episode, “The Devil In The Dark,” the crew discovers that the aliens are actually intelligent and very loyal to their offspring — but only after the Vulcan alien Spock does a mind-meld with one […]

“Star Trek Discovery” debuts on the streaming service CBS All Access on Sunday (Sept. 24) at 8:30 p.m. EDT. This first episode will also air on the CBS TV channel. After a 12-year gap between television series, “Star Trek” is finally coming back to a network television service. The new iteration of the acclaimed science […]

The classified NROL-42 spy satellite is hoisted to meet its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of a planned late-night launch on Sept. 21, 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. A U.S. spy satellite will launch on a clandestine mission early Friday (Sept. 22), and you […]

Granite that’s 3.2 billion years old sits next to sedimentary rocks that date back 3 billion years at White Mfolozi Inlier, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The grinding of giant chunks of Earth’s outer layer — responsible for burping volcanoes, crushing temblors and burgeoning mountains, among other things — may have started half a billion years […]

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, the Trump administration’s nominee for NASA Administrator, is seen here speaking at the National Space Symposium in April 2016. WASHINGTON — The nominee to be the next administrator of NASA says that he believes the agency’s top challenges include maintaining “consistency and constancy of purpose”  that can support long-term plans, while building up […]

An artist’s illustration of the New Horizons spacecraft flying by the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. Recent observations suggest that 2014 MU69 may be a binary object. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is zooming through the outer solar system with its eyes open once again. New Horizons woke from a five-month hibernation […]

Stratolaunch said Sept. 19 it successfully tested the six jet engines that power the giant aircraft that will serve as a launch platform. WASHINGTON — Stratolaunch announced Sept. 19 that the company has achieved another milestone  in the development of a unique giant aircraft that will serve as a launch platform. The company said that it […]

The OSIRIS-REx mission will whip around Earth to build up speed on its journey to Asteroid Bennu. After already traveling millions of miles into space, a NASA asteroid probe will soon return to Earth to take advantage of the planet’s gravity. At 12:52 p.m. EDT (9:52 a.m. PDT) on Friday (Sept. 22), NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft will […]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission launched in 2016 to collect samples of the asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth. See photos from the mission here. On Sept. 22, 2017, OSIRIS-REx will fly by Earth in a gravity assist maneuver (shown here in an artist’s illustration) to accelerate it on its way to Bennu. To source

As fans of the series know, the premise of “Voyager” is that the crew becomes stranded some 75 years’ travel away from home. By Season 6, we are pretty confident that the crew has well assimilated (so to speak) this knowledge, but they come across a ship in the same quadrant that has more questionable […]

These crop circles have been created using a technique called center-pivot irrigation. Seen from space, these discs look more like modern art than like potatoes. But that — plus wheat and chamomile — is what these “crop circles” likely are, according to the NASA Earth Observatory, which posted this photo of agricultural fields in Sharq […]

Stormy Seas Credit: Newscom At a Category 1 storm, Hurricane Maria trekked across the Caribbean Sea toward the Leeward Islands in this GOES satellite image taken on Sept. 18. A View from GOES-13 Credit: NOAA Hurricane Maria is seen by NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite (also known as GOES East) as the storm was located about 60 […]