The blue dot circled in this photo is NASA's Curiosity rover, which was photographed June 5 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Arizona) As it went about its mission to catalog the landscape of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a familiar, if tiny, sight – NASA's Curiosity rover. A photo taken June 5 by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) aboard the Reconnaissance Orbiter dwarfed by the harsh terrain. The car-sized vehicle...

A “potentially hazardous” asteroid is slated to zoom by Earth on June 24. ...

A look at the clouds released by NASA's Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket. (NASA Wallops Flight Facility/Twitter) Early risers from New York to North Carolina got an early Independence Day fireworks displayThursday, courtesy of NASA. At 4:25 a.m., from Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. A few minutes into its 8-minute flight, it released 10 small canisters containing a colored vapor that formed blue-green and red luminescent clouds. The payload later splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 90 miles from...

NOAA satellite captures epic solar eruption. ...

The sun is entering a new phase called the “solar minimum” when there will be relatively few solar flares. ...

An experimental solar panel is ejected from the International Space Station after it fails to retract. ...

At a Glance It's not possible to forecast weather this far in advance of the August eclipse.Average weather conditions tell us this is nearly an ideal time of year to keep weather from blocking the view. The odds are good that weather won't get in the way of. A narrow swath from Oregon to South Carolina will see the moon completely mask the sun on Aug. 21. Nearly all other parts of North America – as well as parts of...

At a Glance The Juno spacecraft will make the closest pass in history to Jupiter's Great Red Spot on Monday evening.It will approach the massive storm at 5,600 miles above the cloud tops, NASA said. In a few days, NASA will get its best look ever at the largest storm in the solar system: Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The Juno spacecraft will make a close pass to the solar system's largest planet on Monday evening, coming as close as ,...

An enormous fireball is caught on a security camera in South Australia. ...

The photo above shows the moon rising over Maine's Casco Bay on July 10, 2017. The satellite took on a rectangular appearance, a mirage scientists say was caused by cold air. (Courtesy of John Stetson/Southern Maine Community College) At a Glance A rising moon looked like a giant block of ice as it appeared in the sky over Casco Bay in Maine. Scientists say the phenomenon was caused by cold air. A rising full moon shocked skywatchers when it appeared...

At a Glance NASA's Juno spacecraft achieved orbit around Jupiter Monday nightThe mission to map out Jupiter's surface will last 20 months and cost $1.1 billion NASA received a much-welcomed message from its Juno spacecraft Monday night from 540 million miles across the solar system, which confirmed that it had successfully started orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. "Welcome to Jupiter!" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, prompting the Juno team to let out a...

At a Glance The Juno spacecraft came closer to Jupiter's Great Red Spot than ever before, capturing some mesmerizing photos.The spot is a giant 10,000-mile-wide, swirling storm packing winds of up to 400 mph. NASA has released new, up-close images of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot. The spacecraft hasorbiting the gas giant, capturing images and sending them back to eager scientists hoping to learn more about the planet. On Monday, the spacecraft came closer to the giant red spot than...