60-second Space

More than 6,000 new images of Kennedy Space Center have recently been added to Google Street View. John Matson reports

After successfully completing its complex series of landing maneuvers, the Curiosity rover is on the Martian surface and ready to begin exploration. John Matson reports

Palomar Observatory's Project 1640 on the Hale Telescope allows astronomers to directly observe exoplanets, whereas the gamma-ray sensitive HESS 2 in Namibia tracks violent astrophysical events such as supernovae and flaring black holes. John Matson reports

The tiny slowing of the two Pioneer spacecraft, known as the Pioneer anomaly and considered by some to challenge general relativity, is probably due to the heat produced by electronics and radioactive decay. John Matson reports

The Curiosity rover is set to begin exploring Mars on August 6. But first it has to land. John Matson reports

Gravitational lensing shows that two galaxy clusters are connected by a filament of dark matter. John Matson reports

The B612 Foundation wants to put a telescope in orbit around the sun to look for asteroids that might hit Earth. John Matson reports

The sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than the surface. Giant magnetic tornadoes may be behind the heat transfer. John Matson reports

Dimitar Sasselov, director of Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative, explains how rocky exoplanets larger than Earth could have greater potential for life than Earth did. Steve Mirsky reports

Several nearby star clusters could harbor incredibly huge stars, with masses of up to 600 suns. John Matson reports

The first commercial visitor to the ISS splashed down successfully in the Pacific after a supply run. John Matson reports

The International Space Station received its first commercial visitor with the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule. John Matson reports

Residents of western states will be in position to see the ring of fire of an annular eclipse on May 20th. John Matson reports

A space-based telescope picked up faint thermal radiation from a "super-Earth" planet 40 light-years away. John Matson reports

Scientists are using a zeppelin to do a slow search for signs of fragments left by the April 22nd Sutter's Mill meteorite. John Matson reports

Dozens of asteroid impacts at least as bad as the dinosaur killer occurred long after such impacts were previously thought to have petered out. John Matson reports

Gamma-ray bursts can't be the source of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays that reach Earth. John Matson reports

A recently discovered pair of exoplanets may be the wreckage of one formerly giant planet. John Matson reports

Starting with Discovery, the decommissioned space shuttle fleet will go on display at museums around the country. John Matson reports

When the star Cassiopeia A exploded, nearly all the iron from the core was expelled to the outer regions of the supernova. John Matson reports