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22 Dec 2015 - Rare Full Moon on Christmas Day

22 Dec 2015 - Rare Full Moon on Christmas DayNot since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays.

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22 Dec 2015 - NASA Suspends 2016 InSight Launch

22 Dec 2015 - NASA Suspends 2016 InSight LaunchAfter thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to call off the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations...

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23 Dec 2015 - Radar Images of a Christmas-Eve Asteroid: An Early Gift for...

23 Dec 2015 - Radar Images of a Christmas-Eve Asteroid: An Early Gift for AstronomersAsteroid 2003 SD220 will safely fly past Earth on Dec. 24 at a distance of 6.8 million miles (11 million kilometers).

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30 Dec 2015 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Achieves Milestone With...

30 Dec 2015 - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Achieves Milestone With Plutonium-238 SampleBy producing 50 grams of plutonium-238, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated the nation's...

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31 Dec 2015 - What's Up - January 2016

31 Dec 2015 - What's Up - January 2016What's Up for January? A meteor shower, a binocular comet, and the winter circle of stars!

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31 Dec 2015 - Looking Back at the 'Year of Pluto'

31 Dec 2015 - Looking Back at the 'Year of Pluto'NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will mark New Year's some 125 million miles beyond Pluto, far removed from the excitement and activity that accompanied...

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4 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 4

4 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 4Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: 2016 preview

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7 Jan 2016 - NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard Mitigation

7 Jan 2016 - NASA Office to Coordinate Asteroid Detection, Hazard MitigationNASA has formalized its ongoing program for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects.

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11 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 11

11 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 11Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: Saturn's moons and more

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12 Jan 2016 - New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images

12 Jan 2016 - New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn ImagesFeatures on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from...

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13 Jan 2016 - NASA's Juno Spacecraft Breaks Solar Power Distance Record

13 Jan 2016 - NASA's Juno Spacecraft Breaks Solar Power Distance RecordNASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone...

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18 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 18

18 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 18Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: Call the shots at Jupiter, and more

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15 Jan 2016 - NASA's Stardust Sample Return was 10 Years Ago Today

15 Jan 2016 - NASA's Stardust Sample Return was 10 Years Ago TodayThe Stardust capsule carried precious cargo that revolutionized our understanding of comets.

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21 Jan 2016 - Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

21 Jan 2016 - Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth PlanetCaltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The...

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21 Jan 2016 - A Planetary Quintet is Dancing Across the Skies

21 Jan 2016 - A Planetary Quintet is Dancing Across the SkiesEarly risers have an opportunity to see five naked-eye planets in pre-dawn skies during late January and continuing through late February.

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22 Jan 2016 - Voyager Mission Celebrates 30 Years Since Uranus

22 Jan 2016 - Voyager Mission Celebrates 30 Years Since UranusVoyager 2 sent back stunning images of the planet Uranus 30 years ago

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25 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 25

25 Jan 2016 - 10 Things: January 25Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: a tour of the solar system

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1 Feb 2016 - What's Up - February 2016

1 Feb 2016 - What's Up - February 2016Five morning planets, comet Catalina passes Polaris, and icy Uranus and icy Vesta meet near Valentine's Day.

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1 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 1

1 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 1Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: a toolkit of 10 essential resources for the armchair astronaut

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2 Feb 2016 - Airborne Asteroid Impact Chasers Release Findings On Space Junk...

2 Feb 2016 - Airborne Asteroid Impact Chasers Release Findings On Space Junk Object WT1190FThe dramatic fall reentry of a piece of space debris has served as a dress rehearsal for researchers who...

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2 Feb 2016 - Saturn's Rings: Less than Meets the Eye?

2 Feb 2016 - Saturn's Rings: Less than Meets the Eye?A recent study from NASA's Cassini mission proves that, in the mysterious and beautiful rings of Saturn, appearances can be deceiving.

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3 Feb 2016 - NASA's Juno Spacecraft Burns for Jupiter

3 Feb 2016 - NASA's Juno Spacecraft Burns for JupiterNASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed a maneuver to adjust its flight path today, Feb. 3. The maneuver refined the spacecraft's...

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1 Feb 2016 - The Many Lives of "Planet X"

1 Feb 2016 - The Many Lives of "Planet X"The idea of planets beyond Neptune has long fascinated astronomers

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8 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 8

8 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 8Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: From Pluto, with Love

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10 Feb 2016 - Exotic Cosmic Locales Available as Space Tourism Posters

10 Feb 2016 - Exotic Cosmic Locales Available as Space Tourism PostersFourteen space travel posters of colorful, exotic cosmic settings are now available free for downloading and printing.

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12 Feb 2016 - ESA's Comet Lander Faces Eternal Hibernation

12 Feb 2016 - ESA's Comet Lander Faces Eternal HibernationThe Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover

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15 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 15

15 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 15Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: travel posters for the planets

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18 Feb 2016 - Happy Discovery Day, Pluto

18 Feb 2016 - Happy Discovery Day, PlutoHappy discovery day, Pluto. A young astronomer discovered the icy world on Feb. 18, 1930.

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22 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 22

22 Feb 2016 - 10 Things: February 22Ten things you need to know about our solar system this week: portraits of the space robots

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26 Feb 2016 - Revisit NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Rover (360 View)

26 Feb 2016 - Revisit NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Rover (360 View)You can explore the landing site of NASA's Pathfinder mission with your mouse or mobile device. This 360-degree view uses images taken...

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