A nearby star stands out in red in this image from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey.

March 7, 2014

NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'Planet X'

NASA's WISE has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized celestial body in our solar system commonly dubbed "Planet X."

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Liftoff of the Delta II rocket carrying the Kepler spacecraft.

March 6, 2014

Kepler Team Marks Five Years in Space

Exactly five years ago, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable worlds.

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Louisiana sinkhole

March 6, 2014

That Sinking Feeling

New analyses of NASA radar data from 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, La. that year.

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Asteroid 2014 EC Flyby of Earth on March 6, 2014

March 6, 2014

Small Asteroid Will Pass Earth Safely on Thursday

An asteroid about 25 feet (8 meters) across will safely pass Earth at about 1:21 p.m. PST (4:21 p.m. EST) today, March 6, approaching us six times closer than the moon.

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Loops of Gas and Dust Rise from Planetary Disks

March 6, 2014

Mystery of Planet-forming Disks Explained by Magnetism

Gigantic magnetic loops on planet-forming disks explain a mystery of too much infrared light.

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This artist's concept shows a possible model of Titan's internal structure

March 5, 2014

Cassini Nears 100th Titan Flyby with a Look Back

On the eve of NASA Cassini's 100th flyby of Titan, scientists are reminded how Earth-like this Saturn moon really is.

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These images show sea surface temperatures of the Beaufort Sea where Canada's Mackenzie River discharges into the Arctic Ocean

March 5, 2014

NASA: Warm Rivers Play Role in Arctic Sea Ice Melt

The heat from warm river waters draining into the Arctic Ocean is contributing to the melting of Arctic sea ice each summer, a new NASA study finds.

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Asteroid 2014 DX110 Flyby of Earth on March 5, 2014

March 4, 2014

Asteroid Will Safely Pass Closer Than Moon Wednesday

As happens about 20 times a year with current detection capabilities, a known asteroid will safely pass Earth Wednesday closer than the distance from Earth to the moon.

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An infrared portrait of Comet NEOWISE (C/2014 C3)

February 28, 2014

NEOWISE Spies Its First Comet

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft has spotted its first new comet since coming out of hibernation late last year.

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Electra Relay Radio on MAVEN Mission to Mars

February 28, 2014

Relay Radio on Mars-Bound NASA Craft Passes Checkout

With completion of a checkout of the relay radio on NASA's Mars-bound MAVEN spacecraft, all of the onboard payloads have now successfully passed initial in-flight checkouts.

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