Latest articles by Nola Taylor Redd
Build Your Own Moon: Online Lunar Game Nabs Honors
In 'CyGaMEs Selene II: A Lunar Construction GaME,' you can build your moon from the comfort of your own home.
NASA's Next Space Telescope Coming Together, Piece by Piece
Engineers have been testing out the huge telescope's parts to prep for its deployment in 2018.
Scientists See Big Rewards (and Risk) in Private Spaceflight
The burgeoning industry should help create new technologies and bring launch costs down.
Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
Baby planets pull gas and dust toward their parent star, helping young suns to continue in their evolution.
Black Holes Spew Out Surprise
The relativistic jets created by ancient supermassive black holes and tiny baby ones are more similar than previously realized.
Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything
Gamma rays from some of the universe's most energetic explosions are allowing scientists to probe the structure of space-time.
Double Star Systems May Be Hiding a Third Companion
Many binary systems spread across vast distances could host a third star in their center.
Distant Black Hole Reveals Chemistry of the Early Universe
The brightest object in the early universe is helping to shine light on conditions soon after the Big Bang.
Did Solar System's Planets Have Rings Before Moons?
The moons in the solar system may have formed from massive rings around their planet.
Saturn Moon Titan's Atmosphere Shows Surprising Rise
NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturnd made the find as seasons change on Titan.
Mercury Photos Reveal Strange 'Pie Crust' Surface
The contraction of the planet Mercury pulled the surface together, but new formations created by stretching have recently been found near squeezed features.
Strange Star Spiral Offers Clues to Sun's Fate
A companion star pushing through expelled dust and gas around a red giant star created a spiral structure.
Earth-Sun Distance Measurement Redefined
Astronomers have redefined the Astronomical Unit as a set value rather than an equation.
Newfound Alien Planet a Top Contender to Host Life
Gliese 163c may be capable of supporting hardy microbes.
New Mars Theory Questions Red Planet's Watery Past
Lava, not water, may have moistened ancient Mars, and could have limited its habitability.
Meteoroids Change Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, Venus
Researchers may be able to use this information to learn more about comets' paths around the sun.
Strange Emissions May Help Unlock Neutron Stars' Mysteries
The X-ray discovery could shed light on the composition of these amazingly dense objects.
NASA Launching Twin Space Probes Into Earth's Radiation Belts Friday
NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes will study Earth's radiation-heavy Van Allen Belts.
NASA's Huge New Mars Rover Targets Biggest Red Planet Mysteries
Where might life on Mars live? How did a wet planet turn dry?
50-Mile Landslides Spotted on Saturn's Icy Moon
Some landslides on Saturn's icy moon, Iapetus, travel 10 to 15 times farther than scientists expected.
How the Euclid Telescope Will Probe the Invisible Universe
Europe's $788 million Euclid mission will launch an ambitious space telescope to map dark matter and dark energy.
