space

Rosetta spacecraft’s first images of comet

By Larisa Epatko

After a 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe reached its final destination on Wednesday: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Why the moon hits your eye like a big … lemon?

By Justin Scuiletti

Scientists have finally made lemonade out of the origins of our lemon-shaped moon. While the moon may look, to quote crooner Dean Martin, like a big pizza pie -- the real shape is a bit more similar to a lemon.

45 years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off into space

By Ariel Min

Forty-five years ago today, the historic liftoff of Apollo 11 was broadcast around the country as America sent the first humans to the moon.

Gravitational waves discovery may flatline under new analysis

By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy

This spring scientists announced that they had found gravitational waves, the "smoking gun" evidence that the universe rapidly expanded in the trillionths of a second after the Big Bang. But new studies suggest that waves they found were just dust…

In space, ‘take your protein pills’ and get your Sriracha on

By Talia Mindich

In space, green beans taste like grass and sliced strawberries are repulsively sweet. That's according to NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock, who spent more than 178 days living -- and eating -- aboard the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery.

Star cluster flung from distant galaxy at 2 million mph

By Joshua Barajas

Astronomers have discovered a cluster of several thousand stars that was ejected out of a distant galaxy at a stellar speed of more than two million miles per hour. The group of “runaway stars,” named HVGC-1 for “hypervelocity globular cluster,”…

NASA explores the fashionable frontier

By Margaret Myers

Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the…

NASA sets solar flare images to music

By News Desk

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare…