60-Second Space

New evidence points to the evolution of the ability for bacteria to grab nitrogen from the... more

A dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way may consist of more dark matter than regular matter.* Cl... more

NASA has to deal with the unexpected financial consequences of robotic missions that just ... more

The oldest group of terrestrial worlds now known formed some 11.2 billion years ago, more ... more

New images from a NASA orbiter reveal Beagle 2’s final resting place. Lee Billings reports... more

Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy’s latest comet find is naked-eye visible in th... more

The company hopes to send up a Falcon 9 rocket and then safely land the discarded first st... more

John Grunsfeld, the former astronaut who now heads NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, thi... more

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is its particular crimson shade because of the interaction of ult... more

Over the summer researchers identified seven specks of dust returned to Earth by the Stard... more

The Rosetta spacecraft has unexpectedly detected hydrogen sulphide and ammonia coming from... more

Take part in a citizen-science project by helping researchers track high-energy cosmic ray... more

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest and most complex organic molecules yet in a... more

Data from the International Space Station-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment sup... more

Texas State University astronomer Donald Olson combined solar, tidal and weather data to i... more

Astronomers have identified the Milky Way’s cosmic address—inside the supercluster Laniake... more

On August 24th, 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft rendezvoused with Neptune, making it the fa... more

If intelligent aliens are dumb enough to pollute their atmosphere, NASA’s upcoming James W... more

Within a Mars-like laboratory environment, perchlorate salts known to exist on Mars were a... more

The Cassini probe readies for its final act with new flight patterns that will get unprece... more

A galaxy four billion light-years from us was has three supermassive black holes at its ce... more

The European Southern Observatory broke ground June 19th to build the world's largest tele... more

The current solar maximum appears to be weak. But the few previously measured maxes could ... more

A failed dwarf galaxy called the Smith Cloud apparently survived an ancient collision with... more

Pluto has at least five moons and an atmosphere—and now a new analysis places its diameter... more

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, once estimated to be 41,000 kilometers across, is just 16,500 ki... more

When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it a... more

The star cluster HVGC-1 had been part of the M87 galaxy, but now it's fleeing that galaxy ... more