This combination of images of the sun looks oddly like a Jack-O-Lantern. (NASA) Looks like the solar system is getting into the Halloween spirit. Just in time for the most terrifying night of the year, NASA has released an incredible image of the fiery surface of the sunlooking eerily like a Tim Burton-style Jack-O-Lantern, Time reports. (MORE: NASA Prepares for Mars Comet Flyby) The photo is actually made up of thousands of images taken on October 8 by the Scientific...

Alyssa Carson may only be 13 years old, but this astronaut-in-training wants to join the ranks of other famous people in space, like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. She is determined to be the first person to set foot on Mars. (MORE: One Haunting Photo) The Baton Rouge, Louisiana, teenager told the BBC, “It is really deserted up there right now, so I want to take the first step.” She’s already on her way to making a name for herself...

Sydney, Australia A girl adjusts a telescope to focus the reflected image of a partial solar eclipse in front of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on May 10, 2013. (SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images) Get your pinhole projectors and welders' goggles ready. North Americans are in for a treat Thursday as the new moon is set to partially block out the sunand provide an afternoon lightshow, known as a partial solar eclipse. Nearly all of North America, save for portions of far...

Get your pinhole projectors and welders' goggles ready. North Americans are in for a treat Thursday as the new moon is set to partially block out the sunand provide an afternoon lightshowknown as a partial solar eclipse. Nearly all of North America–save for portions of far eastern Canada and the northeastern-most U.S.–will be able to witness the eclipse, according to Space.com. EarthSkyexplains that a solar eclipse is caused by the new moon passing between the Earth and the sun. In...

Last week, six people entered a two-story, 1,500-square-foot dome on the slopes of Hawaii's Mauna Loa. For the next eight months, they'll have to wear a spacesuit when they leave the dome, and their primary contact with the outside world will be limited to email, to which they'll have to wait 40 minutes for a response. Why? To train for what conditions would be like on Mars, so scientists can learn how humans respond to the isolation and social effects...

SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth on Saturday after a month-long supply mission at the International Space Station, NBC News reports. The unmanned capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles west of Baja, California, carrying over 3,000 pounds of returned gear and experiments, according to CNN. (MORE:Stunning Satellite Images) The gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule blasted off on September 21st aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NBC News Reports. The spacecraft...

Google vice president Alan Eustace just proved that execs at the Internet monolith live just as large outside of the office. On Friday, the 57-year-old computer scientist plunged 135,890 feet from high in the atmosphere in a specialized space suit, breaking Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner’s world altitude record for highest parachute jump set in 2012. We’re just wondering if when he took the plunge, he yelled “yahooooo!” (MORE: Plane Makes Shaky Landing) In this photo provided by Paragon Space Development...

The Antares rocket at its launch pad on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 25. (NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA aborted the launch of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft in Virginia on Oct. 27 because of a boat in the launch area. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport were set to send the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft and 5,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Stationbefore the interruption. The launch was planned to take place right...

The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft aboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (NASA/Joel Kowsky) After a scrubbed attempt Monday NASA will try again Tuesday evening tolaunch its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. The launch is scheduled for 6:22 p.m. ETatNASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Since the launch is around sunset, millions of people could see the rocket as it creates a...

The unmannedAntares rocket carrying the unmanned Cygnus spacecraft exploded moments after takeoff aboveNASA'sWallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, Tuesday evening. NASA and Orbital Sciences are still trying to assess the damage and understand the cause of the failure. Screenshot shows explosion in Virginia Tuesday. (NASA-TV) The launch was scheduled for 6:22 p.m. ET and aired on a live stream of NASA-TV. The video shows debris falling to the ground. The company said everyone at the site had been accounted...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo broke apart over California's Mojave Desert on Friday after a device to slow the experimental space tourism rocket's descent deployed too soon, according to investigators. The accident killed the co-pilot, Michael Alsbury; the pilot, Peter Siebold, who piloted the mission, survived after parachuting out of the plane. On Sunday, Siebold was described as alert and talking with his family and doctors. National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said that while no cause for Friday's crash...

Engine failure was the cause of the explosion of an unmanned rocket shortly after it lifted off from a launch pad in Wallops Island, Virginia, last month, according to the company behind it. Orbital Sciences Corp. said in a news release Wednesday that an internal investigation has reviewed both telemetry and video data as well as a "substantial" amount of the debris from the failed Oct. 28 Antares rocket launch. "Preliminary evidence and analysis conducted to date points to a...