Astronaut Neil Armstrong brought a bag full of memorabilia back from the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and for more than 45 years, it was never seen by the outside world. But Armstrong’s widow, Carol, recently found in a closet,according to The Verge. She turned it over to a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the report added, who was thrilled to discover the treasures inside the bag. “It is hard ,” said Allan Needell...

The Rosetta Spacecraft took an intimate Valentine's Day photo series of Comet 67P. (ESA/Rosetta/NavCam) The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe had an intimate Valentine's Day date with Comet 67P, and the result is a series of stunningly detailed photos. In a blog post, the ESA said last Saturday and took photos with the spacecraft's NAVCAM above the comet's "Imhotep region." With 16 individual frames, the ESA pieced together the images to form a mosaic and capture the comet as...

A mysterious Martian haze is defying everything scientists know about the Red Planet's atmosphere. The strange phenomenon was spotted in March and April of 2012 , according to a recently published report in the journal Nature. Wayne Jaeschke, member of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers and a Westchester, Pennsylvania, patent attorney, was , "I sent a couple of frames to some guys I know in Australia," he told National Geographic, "and asked, 'Am I seeing things?'" (MORE: )...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured thrilling first-ever images of Pluto's moons, Nix and Hydra, exactly 85 years after the icy planet was first discovered. Between Jan. 27 and Feb. 8, the craft from 125 million to 115 million miles away, according to the mission website. The images provide our best view to date of the small satellites orbiting the dwarf planet. NASA had only just become aware Nix and Hydra existedin 2006, NBC reports. The glare from Pluto and its...

After a 6½-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, one of the astronauts discovered water had leaked into his helmet, NASA said. The leak was scarily reminiscent of a . This time, the amount of water was relatively small — essentially a big blob of water floating inside Terry Virts' helmet. In the summer of 2013, another spacewalking astronaut's helmet actually flooded. He barely made it back inside. Virts was never in any danger, Mission Control said. This...

An unusually slow-moving group of fireballs was spotted from the U.S. Southwest into Canada earlier this week. But the lights in the sky weren’t coming from a meteor — it was space junk re-entering and breaking up over Earth. The American Meteor Society fielded nearly 200 reports from across the region Monday night. While some people assumed it was a meteor, Diane Haskins from Noxon, Montana, hit the nail on the head. “,” she told the AMS. “It appeared that...

NASA scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by its Dawn spacecraft that captured . The images of Ceres, located between Mars and Jupiter, show what appear to be tiny bright areas in a circular depression. NASA scientists speculate that the spots, captured Feb. 19 from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles, are some kind of volcanic origin, but they aren't sure. (MORE: ) "The brightest spot continues to be too small to resolve with our camera, but despite...

Members of the "Star Trek" cast are pictured in September 1976 in front of NASA's first shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," named after the U.S.S. Enterprise from the long-running show. (NASA/Twitter) By now, you’ve likely heard about the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy, 83, best known for his role as Spock, the Vulcan with a heart, in the cult TV series "Star Trek." Chances are you first read word of his death on Facebook or Twitter, as tributes trended, including #RIPLeonardNimoy, #livelongandprosper...

In a brilliant cosmic display, a thin waxing crescent moon, Venus and Mars aligned for the first time in seven years on Feb. 20, 2015. The spectacle is known as ""— two celestial bodies in our solar system align, enabling observers to see them in the same line of sight, says EarthSky.org. Mars was the quieter of the three components, only appearing as a dull disk, Astronomy.com reported. at 88 percent illumination, which Astronomy.com says was a little more than...

Bad weather postponed a NASA rocket launch early last week, but after a few days the rocket successfully launched and proved to be worth the wait. The research rocket was launched from a U.S. Army installation in New Mexico, but residents in Arizona reported the real treat: a bright pink cloud was visible for 20 minutes as sunlight hit the vapor released from the rocket, Cammy Montoya, a spokeswoman for White Sands Missile Range, told the Associated Press. The cloud...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft made history Friday, March 6, 2015 after it began to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn's achievement is significant as it has become the with a dwarf planet, Space.com reports. Dawn was PST, NASA revealed. The spacecraft achieved the feat around 38,000 miles out. (MORE: ) Ceres was first discovered over 200 years ago in 1801, Space.com says, and has gone through several changes in the astronomy books. The celestial body was first perceived as a planet...

When you first see the new renderings, you’ll assume you’re looking at an ancient version of Earth. But these new images actually depict what Mars could have looked like about 4.3 billion years ago. The animations are a product of , who aimed to find how much water a primitive version of the Red Planet could have held. According to the study,s published in on March 5, Mars could have held as much water as Earth’s Arctic Ocean. “Our study...