At a Glance The announcement of a 13th zodiac sign, Ophiuchus, caused a stir on social media.NASA says it has not altered the zodiac signs, but has simply calculated the math of the Babylonians. This month, NASA threw many people’s routine of checking their horoscope for a loop when it came out that there was a 13th zodiac sign. However, it turns out that a little confusion spiraled into a star-crossed mess. According to Quartz, the furor began when a...

Despite an earlier report, NASA hasn’t changed the signs of the zodiac. ...

The image above shows a wide view of when the water level of the Cedar River measured just over 20 feet, which is 8 feet above flood stage, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (NASA) At a Glance Images from NASA's Earth Observatory show Iowa's unseasonal flooding from space.The Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, crested to its second-highest level on record. Earlier this month, heavy rainfall pummeled parts of the Midwest, triggering floods that inundated homes, washed out roads and caused...

After the successful testing of his company's Raptor rocket engine, SpaceX founder Elon Musk's vision of 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars within the next century is coming to fruition. Tuesday, Musk outlined his plans to establish a self-sustaining city on the Red Planet, complete with iron foundries and even pizzerias. He wants humans to become a multi-planetary species and says the best way to do that is to colonize Mars. "I think Earth will be a good...

After more than two years, the historic Rosetta probe mission has come to an end after the probe made a controlled impact onto Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. “,” ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner said in a release. “Today we celebrate the success of a game-changing mission, one that has surpassed all our dreams and expectations, and one that continues ESA’s legacy of 'firsts' at comets.” The mission’s end was confirmed early Friday morning when Rosetta’s signal was lost upon impact, according to...

The Rosetta spacecraft’s final mission was a suicide mission. After orbiting comet 67P for the past two years, it crash landed into the comet in spectacular fashion. ...

The image above shows the young star Elias 2-27 exhibiting unusual spiral arms in its protoplanetary disk, the first time such a structure has been spotted around a newborn star. (B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) At a Glance For the first time, researchers have noticed spiral arms like those of the Milky Way galaxy surrounding a newborn star.The scientists believe it may explain the mystery behind planets forming far away from their parent stars. While observing the young star Elias...

Oct. 6, 2016 The image above shows an aerial view of power outages on the Atlantic coast during Hurricane Matthew at 3:14 a.m. local time on Oct. 6, 2016. At a Glance Images from NASA show power outages from Hurricane Matthew. At the height of the storm, more than 1 million were without power in Florida. On the ground, Hurricane Matthew battered South Carolina, Florida and Georgia with flooding rains and damaging winds that knocked out power to millions. Images...

Meteorologist Ari Sarslari explains how several meteor showers are on tap for the coming weeks. ...

At a Glance Researchers say traveling to Mars could cause astronauts to experience "space brain.""Space brain" could cause astronauts to experience cognitive impairments.There is no escaping the particles that cause the phenomenon. As efforts to get to Mars become more advanced, a team of researchers at the University of California at Irvine say journeying to the Red Planet could have hazardous effects on astronauts’ brains. In a recent study, the scientists say, similar to those found in the galactic cosmic...

A massive cloud of gas and other material appears to be heading for a collision with the Milky Way, but impact isn’t expected for millions of years. ...

At a Glance New evidence suggests the Earth was warmed millions of years ago by a cosmic crash. Researchers say they found super-heated rocks that support their claim. New evidence suggests that a comet or space rock crashed intoEarth56millionyears ago and possibly triggered a massive warming, researchers say. Millions of years ago,Earthwarmed by about 9 to 14 degrees before returning to normal, all within the course of 100,000years. This helped lead to some extinctions and the rise of mammals. Theories...