At a Glance Images from NASA show the crash site of the European Space Agency's Schiaparelli lander on Mars.The images cover three locations where parts of the lander made it to the ground. New images from NASA show the crash site of the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander on Mars, providing the first color view of the scene since the craft’s collision with the Red Planet on Oct. 19. In the photos, the area where the lander module struck the...

What sounds like the plot of a sci-fi thriller became a reality last year after a solar flare left a crack in the Earth’s magnetic field, our protective barrier. According to the study published about the event, that appear to have weakened our planet’s magnetic shield. , according to the American Physical Society. The particles slammed the Earth’s magnetosphere and, during the storm, knocked out radio signals in North and South America. ScienceAlert describes the event as . Observational data...

At a Glance Scientists spotted a "naked" supermassive black hole streaking away from a galaxy. They say they've never seen anything like it. Seeing somebody naked and running through your neighborhood at top speed would no doubt catch your attention. Same thing with black holes and astronomers. According to a release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, astronomers spotted the supermassive black hole, dubbed B3 1715+425 alongside remnants of . "We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes,...

Meteorologist Danielle Banks explains how a gas cloud named Smith's Cloud is expected to hit the Milky Way in 30 million years. Good news is it won't be harmful to us. ...

Dwarf planet Pluto has always been a bit of an oddball in the solar system, but a recent discovery shows that the celestial body has been giving off some strange signals. According to the October study published on the findings, during a July 2015 flyby with a New Horizons spacecraft. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was aimed at Pluto and its moons, detected low-energy emissions coming off of it. “We’ve just detected, for the first time, X-rays coming from an...

At a Glance SpaceX said a September rocket explosion was the result of liquid oxygen cooling to a level that caused it to freeze and explode.The company said it is moving forward with plans for rocket launches as soon as mid-December. After weeks of investigating what caused a SpaceX rocket to explode on the launch pad, the company's CEO said he believes the issue has been located. Elon Musk said it was a problem with the supercooled liquid oxygen ,...

At a Glance NASA's Juno spacecraft is still on its stable orbit, not the "science orbit" that would allow it to collect data from Jupiter.NASA's next chance to get the spacecraft on the science orbit is Dec. 11.Juno has been left in the stable orbit, farther from the planet, because of an issue with two helium check valves that are firing incorrectly. NASA's Juno spacecraft is still drifting in the wrong orbit around Jupiter, and it won't get corrected for...

At a Glance The "Beaver" supermoon will be the largest in almost 70 years.The moon won't come this close to Earth again until 2034. Sky gazers are about to be treated to a celestial event that hasn't been observed in almost 70 years and won't come again for many years to come. The "record-breaking" supermoon slated for Monday, Nov. 14, known as the Beaver Moon or Frost Moon, will be exceptionally large and bring with it higher than normal tides....

This visible-light image showing the rings of Saturn was captured Sept. 24, 2016 by the Cassini spacecraft. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) At a Glance A new study released by a Cornell University researcher revealed Saturn's rings may only be 15 to 100 million years old.Previous estimates said Saturn's rings were at least 10 billion years old.The new findings were made possible by data from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been in Saturn's orbit for 12 years. For decades, scientists have held...

A new study supports the theory that Pluto may have an underground ocean. It has long been suspected the dwarf planet has a deep sea beneath its frozen surface. Observations and studies from a flight past Pluto in 2015 by NASA's New Horizons and published in this week's journal Nature focus on a 600-mile basin known as Sputnik Planitia in the left lobe of Pluto's heart-shaped region. Evidence suggests tidal forces with jumbo moon Charon may have prompted Pluto to...

At a Glance The nation's most advanced weather satellite, GOES-R, launched Saturday at sunset. It will produce the sharpest and fastest images yet of the nation's weather events. Eventually it will become part of $11 billion system that will ultimately include four satellites Saturday night, NASA launched the nation’s most advanced weather satellite ever. The $1 billion Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) satellite was created for the purpose of churning out the sharpest and fastest pictures yet of hurricanes,...

NASA invites you to float through The International Space Station in Ultra High Definition. ...