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Watch a supermassive black hole feast in mesmerizing new simulation (video)There's no consensus yet on how supermassive black holes form, but a new mesmerizing simulation is taking a crack at that question like never before.
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Look up! Saturn shines bright, shows off rings as it reaches opposition.Starting Monday (Aug. 2), you can find Saturn shining in the sky as part of a celestial phenomenon called opposition.
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Venus has a gooey flowing mantle jostling crust chunks on its surfaceVenus may still be geologically active today, which could mean that Earth's planetary sibling is a good place for scientists to learn about early Earth and faraway worlds.
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Without gravity, the fluid around an astronaut's brain moves in weird waysThe fluid that cushions the human brain redistributes in the skull during spaceflight, according to a new study.
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NASA to stop using racist nicknames for cosmic objectsNASA will discontinue the use of certain nicknames for astronomical objects that are considered to be racist, the space agency said Aug. 5.
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Subsurface vortexes may have created Saturn's mysterious hexagonTwo researchers investigated the dynamics of Saturn's churning atmosphere to figure out what sorts of planetary fluid dynamics are creating its mystifying hexagon.
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'Vampire' star sparks brilliant 'super-outburst' while gorging on its neighborThis rare finding was made by "accident," according to the research team that found the super-outburst.
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Australia's Devastating Wildfires Seen from SpaceObservations from NASA satellites show the effects the Australian wildfires are having across the land, the ocean and the air.
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Why Today Is the 1st Day of Autumn in Earth's Northern HemisphereThis morning (Sept. 23) at 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 GMT) marked the official celestial beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of SoundAt Mach 5, flight times from New York to London would be reduced from 7 hours to 90 minutes.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket: By the NumbersTo gain a fuller understanding of Falcon Heavy's caliber and the ambitions behind the SpaceX launch, it is worthwhile to look at the numbers.
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Wild 360-Degree Video Lets You See the Milky Way As a Giant Black Hole WouldA new 360-degree simulation that uses data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory is helping astronomers better understand more than 22 stellar giants found at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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New Cave-Dwelling Eyeless Creature Baited with Stinky CheeseA pale, slender creature was found in a cave with the help of smelly cheese.
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Monster Solar Flare Marks 7th Powerful Sun Storm in 7 DaysThe sun fired off yet another powerful solar flare yesterday (Sept. 10), its seventh in seven days.
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See Hurricane Irma in Motion in These NASA and NOAA GIFsSpace and weather agencies are sending data to the National Hurricane Center to issue warnings and forecasts about Irma's potential for destruction in the Caribbean Sea.
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Harvey Response: NASA Lends Space-Based Eyes to RecoveryNASA is aiding the humanitarian response to Tropical Storm Harvey by surveying the storm's impact from above.
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Stunning Satellite Photo Reveals Volcanic Eruption Near AlaskaEruptions from one of the most active volcanic regions in the world sent plumes of ash and steam into the sky this week, as captured in a spectacular image by an Earth-monitoring satellite.
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NASA Unveils New Maps of Pluto, Moon Charon for Flyby AnniversaryOn the two-year anniversary of the New Horizons probe's flyby of Pluto, mission scientists unveiled two detailed global maps of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon.
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July Fourth Comes Early: NASA Sounding Rocket Releases Colorful Morning Cloud Show (Photos, Video)A NASA sounding rocket launched early this morning and lit up the skies over the U.S. East Coast with colorful clouds, ringing in an early July Fourth celebration.
