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Watch Footage of NASA’s Landing on Saturn’s Moon

The Cassini mission to Saturn is one of the grandest, most epic journeys that NASA have ever attempted. Nearly 20 years in the making, the mission’s purpose has been to study Saturn and its moons

Take a Look At This Epic Guide To the October Nighttime Sky

Two epic meteor showers will take place this month. Here’s what you can expect: This first is the Draconids on Oct. 7, 2016. The radiant point for the Draconid meteor shower almost coincides with the

7 Things Astronauts Have Snuck Into Space

Astronauts have found ways to sneak items into space over the past 50 years. Here are some examples. Dirt from a Pitcher’s Mound New York Yankees fan Garrett Reisman took dirt from the pitcher’s mound at Yankee Stadium during

All About NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

This month NASA launches its OSIRIS-REx mission, an epic seven-year journey that will send a spacecraft to a remote asteroid called Bennu. Why Bennu? At 4 billion years old, it is one of the oldest

Watch the Perseids Meteor Shower Peak on Aug. 11-12

Each August, the Swift-Tuttle comet lights up the nighttime sky, displaying a beautiful light show for all us Earthlings. How? When pieces of the comet hurl into our atmosphere at 132,000 MPH, they create streaks

Take a Peek At One Of the Deepest Views Into Space Ever

Ready to have your mind blown? The photo above is one of the deepest views into space possible. The famed Hubble telescope recently took these shots of galaxy cluster Abell S1063, showing the very furthest

Celebrate the 47th Anniversary of Moon Day

Celebrate man’s first moon landing today!

NASA’s Juno Space Probe Arrives at Jupiter

While most people were celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks and hot dogs, NASA was celebrating one of its most impressive missions ever: the arrival of the Juno space probe in Jupiter’s orbit. Juno

Here’s How Engineers Plan To Clean Up Space Junk

It’s easy to think of the space around our planet as an empty vacuum, devoid of much other than a few satellites and the International Space Station. In reality, there are millions of pieces of

Take an Epic 360-Degree Tour of Mars

Want to visit Mars? Unless your an astronaut — or a robot — this incredible 360-degree tour of the Red Planet is just about the closest you get.