Solarium concept art. (NASA) NASA is unveiling a new exhibit aimed at bringing viewers up close and personal with the sun. Wednesday afternoon, at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and later open the exhibit to the public. Conceptual art of the exhibit. (NASA/SDO/Duberstein/Wiessinger) The installation, will feature floor-to-ceiling projections of massive-scale imagery from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). These videos, edited to produce a hypnotic effect, will be paired with music created at Stanford University. (MORE: )...

Active Region 1302 (September 2011) Each of the dark cores in this image is larger than Earth and the entire active region stretches more than 100,000 km from end to end. (NASA/SDO/HMI) Without the Sun there would not be life on Earth. However, the Sun occasionally acts up in the form of solar storms; the dangerous effects of which can sometimes be felt here. The subject of space weather deals with the impacts of these solar storms on Earth and,...

An image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has people talking, and it's not entirely because of the phenomenon pictured. This image of the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 appears to show the cluster "smiling." The two orange eyes are made up of very bright galaxies, and the smile lines are arcs caused by , according to NASA. The event occurs when the gravitational pull between the two clusters is so strong that it , according to CNN. The object...

Each winter, a peculiar ring-shaped frozen body of water stands out vividly from space in the Quebec Province of Canada. Red circle shows the location of the Manicouagan Crater in Quebec. Though it's easy to see in the warmer months as well, the satellite image animation above shows that the ring is much more visible in winter due to the ice on the surface of the lake. Known as the Manicouagan Crater, it's estimated to be 214 million years old....

The Black Moon will drift in the sky on Feb. 18, 2015, and it is safe to say it will be an entity of its own. February's new moon is, as it is both a black and a supermoon, says EarthSky.org. The lunar body qualifies as a "supermoon" since it is new and will be on it's closest approachto Earth during orbit. To be considered a Black Moon, a , according to UniverseToday.com. February's lunar event meets the most difficult...

SpaceX finally got the weather conditions it was looking for, paving the way to a successful launch of a deep-space observatory from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 6 p.m. ET Wednesday. But the mission didn’t totally go the way NASA and SpaceX had originally hoped. High waves and rough seas canceled the radical rocket-landing test. Waves reaching three stories high crashed over the landing-zone platform floating 370 miles off the Florida coast. Making matters worse, one of four engines needed...

At approximately 10:00 p.m. local time in New Zealand, Josh Sherborne spotted an unusual flash of light in the sky. "On my way to the gym when — BAM — this comes out of nowhere," he said on his YouTube page. "I actually thought it was lightning." "This was an exceptionally bright flash of light across the country, with many people saying they heard sonic booms that scared them and the animals," head weather analyst Philip Duncan for WeatherWatch.co.nz toldThe...

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...