It's the closest we've gotten so far to the true Mars experience –NASA recently released an interactive, 360-degree video that allows users to navigate up, down, left, and right to see exactly what the Curiosity rover sees as it explores the Namib Dune. According to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the near Mount Sharp, which is visible on the horizon. (MORE:) The new video is the second attempt at an interactive 360-degree image stitched together from lots of photos of...

A lucky stargazer spotted a rare proton arc aurora in Alberta. (Theresa Tanner ) Stargazers in northwestern Canadawere amazed to witness a rare purple-hued aurora phenomenon — which is yet to be fully understood by space scientists. Darlene and Theresa Tanner captured a photograph of the extraordinary purple streak in the sky, colloquially known by aurora chasers as a "proton arc." "We chase storms in the summer and aurora in the winter, going into our fourth year," Theresa explained to...

The Milky Way Galaxy has long been celebrated as the brightest object in the sky. It's beautiful glow provides a gorgeous backdrop for a series of stunning photos taken by British photographer Rob Dickinson. According to NASA, the glow from the Milky Way is the result of and producing gamma rays. In Dickinson's pictures, the shining galaxy is captured from various angles. To create these images, Dickinson stitched together , an effort that takes about 30 minutes per photo, Buzzfeedreports....

There are countless stars in the Milky Way, now scientist have found hundreds of other never before seen galaxies beyond ours. Kait Parker has the details. ...

Astronomers have caught a glimpse of hundreds of galaxies previously obscured by the gas and dust of the Milky Way. Published this week in the Astronomical Journal, a new study by an international group of scientists, a part of the night sky that is hidden by our hazy galaxy. Using the Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers observed 883 galaxies. About a third of these had never been seen before now. "We've used a range of techniques but only radio observations have...

(Thinkstock) If a 0.6-mile-wide asteroid were to strike the Earth at the right spot, the world could fall into a mini-ice age, a new study claims. Opposed to an ocean impact, if an asteroid of that size were to make its impact on land it would cause , which is about the equivalent to the ice ages, according to Space.com. “These would not be pleasant times," Charles Bardeen, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said during...

An artist's depiction of a black hole collision event 1.3 billion lightyears away. The recording of gravitational waves emanating from this collision proved the last untested part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (ligo.caltech.edu) Nearly 100 years after Albert Einstein postulated his Theory of General Relativity, the last remaining unproven part has been observed, potentially offering future insights into the Big Bang Theory of the creation of the universe. Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration recorded the existence of gravitational waves,...

Startling news came out of India this week after it was reported that a meteorite struck a college campus, killing a bus driver and injuring three people. However, NASA is saying that what crashed to the Earth wasn’t a meteorite at all. On Saturday, a strange projectile object plummeted from the sky and crashed into the ground. (MORE:) A 40-year-old man identified only asKamarahjwas , CNN reported. Indian authorities inspect the site of a suspected meteorite a day after it...

The photo above shows the newly formed star HD 93700 lighting up the surrounding cosmic clouds in this new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. (European Southern Observatory ) A photo captured by the European Southern Observatory shows dust particles in the vast clouds surrounding newborn star HD 93700, diffusing its brilliant light and creating the reflection nebula IC 2631. The photos, taken by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, show a glowing...

Scientists say they have confirmed gravitational waves exist after two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years form the earth. Kait Parker has the details. ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly is more than a scientist and the record holder for the longest cumulative time spent in space. He's also an artist. One look at his Twitter account — found — as well as the photos above, and you'll see why. Since Kelly's deployment to the International Space Station in March of last year (along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko), he has documented his many trips around our planet with beautiful photography. Most recently, he started a series...

Planetary nebula Hen 2-437's symmetrical wings appear icy blue in a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. ( ESA/Judy Schmidt, Hubble & NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope has added a stunning photo of the Hen 2-437 nebula to its growing collection of stellar images. In the photo, it’s symmetrical wings appear in to shine an icy blue hue. As seen in the photo, Hen 2-437 is a bipolar nebula; the material spewed from the dying star has spread out...