The planet's massive hurricane is seen in this image captured by the Cassini spacecraft. (NASA) At a Glance The Cassini spacecraft has sent back images taken after it dove between Saturn and its rings.It was the first time the spacecraft has ever been between the planet and its rings.NASA plans to do 22 more such dives before the spacecraft's mission ends Sept. 15. For the first time ever, a spacecraft has made it between Saturn and its rings, and NASA...

The successful March 25 ground test of the Peregrine hybrid rocket, which uses a new fuel comprised of laughing gas and the same ingredient found in crayons. (NASA) In what may come as a surprise, a new rocket fuel invented by NASA and Stanford University is made from laughing gas and an ingredient found in crayons. According to a NASA , the fuel, which passed its final ground test March 25, is composed of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing...

Time-lapse photography aboard the International Space Station captures gorgeous aurora images along with lightning down on Earth. ...

A SpaceX rocket carried a classified satellite into space, and then the booster returned successfully to earth. ...

A shooting star flies over Veiga, Galicia, Spain. (Carlos Fernandez/Getty Images) It's only a little more than three months before parts of America are treated to the celestial event of the past four decades, the .Until then, skygazers will have much to marvel at in May's night sky. This month you can expect theflower moon, a meteor shower and the new moon supermoon. For thosewith binoculars or a telescope, there are other interesting things to see. Eta-Aquariid Meteor Shower...

A phenomenon known as sunglint causes an eerie shadow in the waters off Oman on April 11, 2017. (NASA Earth Observatory) At a Glance A recent NASA satellite image showed an eerie, dark swath in the Arabian Sea off Oman's coast.Scientists say it was caused by a totally natural phenomenon known as a sunglint. What appears to be something dark and sinister brewing in the Arabian Sea is actually a ray of light, NASA officials said. In a natural-color image...

Lockheed Martin and the NOAA GOES-16 weather satellite shows the powerful storm system over the United States from April 28 and 29, with massive clouds and multiple lightning flashes. ...

NASA finds a giant gas “tsunami” in space -- twice the size of our Milky Way galaxy. ...

At a Glance Physicist Stephen Hawking has said he believes humans will need to find a new home within 100 years.This summer, Hawking will present his theory in a BBC documentary. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long held thathumans only have 100 years to find a new planet. This summer, he will present his theory in a BBC documentary. According to the BBC, the documentary"" will air as part of its Tomorrow’s World season and will explore Hawking's theory that...

Producer Jennifer Willen describes how a mysterious U.S. space plane ended a two-year mission when it landed with a sonic boom at Cape Canaveral. ...

An artist’s rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere. (NASA/GSFC) Mars has been difficult for astronomers to research, but a recent study suggests that an artificial magnetic field may allow us to come closer to the planet than we ever thought possible. “This may sound ‘fanciful’ but new research is starting to emerge revealing that ,” researchers wrote in a recent NASA study. “This new research is coming about due to the...

An artist's illustration of the distant “warm Neptune” HAT-P-26b. (NASA/GSFC) The study of a warm, Neptune-sized exoplanet with a water-laden atmosphere has revealed a few surprises for astronomers. According to a , astronomers using the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes say exoplanetHAT-P-26b possesses water signatures but far less than expected when compared to thegas giants in our own solar system. This suggests, the scientists say, that the composition of the planet'satmosphere is the original hydrogen-helium mixture from which it was formed....