Mars Lost an Ocean’s worth of Water
New isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the Martian surface. Watch the video…
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Lenticular cloud, Moon, Mars and Venus
“The original plan was to photograph a rare angular conjunction of Mars and Venus that occurred a week and a half ago, with the added bonus of
The First Selfie in Space
The first selfie in space by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, along with more old NASA photos, will be auctioned.
Bizarre Bright Spots on Ceres
Astronomers puzzled by ‘bright spots’ on surface of dwarf planet Ceres, as NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object.
Gigantic Black Hole 12 billion times more massive than our Sun
A gigantic black hole at the heart of the brightest quasar in the early universe discovered, 12 billion times more massive than our sun.
How much Saharan Dust feeds Amazon’s plants
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions the amounts of dust that makes a trans-Atlantic journey… How much Saharan dust feeds Amazon’s
Astronaut’s selfie on a Spacewalk
NASA astronaut’s Barry Wilmore selfie, outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks.
Eastern U.S. in a record-breaking ‘Freezer’
NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the snow-covered eastern U.S. that looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer.
The Milky Way over the Arizona Toadstools
The magnificent central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy arches over the aged Toadstool hoodoos rock formations in northern Arizona, USA. Image credit David Lane & R.
An extremely bright Black Hole emitting Trillion Suns’ worth of energy
In a new study, astronomers determined PDS 456, an extremely bright black hole known as a quasar more than 2 billion light-years away, sustains winds that carry