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Spaceflight Might Expand Your Mind, But It Shrinks Your Brain
October 24, 2018 | ArticleGoing to space does more than change the way you look at the world — it also changes your brain.
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Space Pirates Take Warning: This 'Skull and Crossbones Nebula' Is Full of Gas and Baby Stars
October 24, 2018 | ArticleThe constellation NGC 2467 looks like a skull and crossbones.
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Scientists Now Have the Most Detailed Picture Yet of the Neutrino Factory Inside Our Sun
October 24, 2018 | ArticleBy tracking every neutrino that hit a detector beneath a mountain in Italy over ten years, scientists have painted the most detailed picture yet of the sun's interior.
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Bizarre, Blue Space Rock Even Weirder Than Astronomers Thought
October 24, 2018 | ArticleA bizarre, blue asteroid that acts like a comet and appears to be responsible for the annual Geminid meteor shower made a close flyby of Earth last year, giving astronomers an opportunity to study the object in unprecedented detail.
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BepiColombo Spacecraft Headed to Mercury Snaps 1st Photo, a Selfie
October 22, 2018 | ArticleThe European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured its first photo on Saturday (Oct. 20), a day after lifting off from French Guiana. The image is a selfie showing a solar array and an insulation-wrapped sun sensor.
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Exoplanet Hunters Have a New Plan to Spot Hidden 'Migrating' Worlds
October 20, 2018 | ArticleThere's a telescope that can see thick rings of dust in distant star systems. And researchers want to use its data in a new way to spot hidden and migrating exoplanets.
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Einstein and the Incredible Hulk Now Have Their Own Constellations (But You'll Never See Them)
October 19, 2018 | ArticleNASA added 21 new "constellations" to the sky, thanks to invisible gamma-ray light.
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This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
October 19, 2018 | ArticleIridium 70 fell out of orbit Oct. 10. A few days later, one of its fuel tanks caused a stir in central California.
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11 Fascinating Facts About Our Milky Way Galaxy
October 16, 2018 | CountdownWe should all get to know our galactic home better.
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Why Haven't We Found Aliens? Because We're Just Not Looking Hard Enough.
October 16, 2018 | ArticleWe still have a long way to go in the search for intelligent aliens.
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