Articles
So There’s This Horse, and Apparently, It Paints
A horse is a horse, of course, but what if it paints, too?
Asteroid in a Bag: NASA’s Long, Strange Trip
The space agency's latest plan for a manned mission—including capturing an asteroid and towing it to the moon—begs crddulity
Meteor Dazzles East Coast Night Skies
No, that was not a plane on fire. It was a meteor.
How Should We Deal With Future Near-Earth Asteroids? In the Words of NASA: ‘Pray’
NASA chief Charles Bolden did not have many reassuring words for the U.S. House of Representative Science Committee when he spoke recently about his agency's...
Humanity Leaves the Solar System: 35 Years Later, Voyager Offically Exits the Heliosphere
It is a historic threshold: An object created by humans has exited our solar system. For years now, scientists have speculated as to when the Voyager I...
Photo Essays
PHOTOS: Russia Meteor Explosion Shatters Windows, Injures Hundreds
In scenes that could have been from a Hollywood movie, a flaming meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia Friday, injuring some 1,000...
Voyager, 6 Billion Miles Later: Photos from the Depths of Our Solar System
For 20 years, America’s Voyager spacecraft have been flying toward the edges of our solar system. TIME surveys the most notable interstellar scenes captured by...
Articles from Around the Web
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development
NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. ...
Saturn Is Shaking Its Rings
Now they have discovered a new ring sculptor: oscillations of the planet itself, which promise insight into the interior of the solar system's second-largest planet. [ More ] ...
NASA Awards Contract to Modify Mobile Launcher
NASA has awarded a contract to J.P. Donovan Construction Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., to modify the mobile launcher that will enable the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket to send humans to an asteroid ...
NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition
Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
