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Mars helicopter Ingenuity nails 8th flight on the Red PlanetNASA's experimental Mars helicopter has now flown eight times on the Red Planet, traveling farther than scientists hoped would be possible.
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Jeff Bezos will fly on Blue Origin's 1st crewed flightThe Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder announced on Instagram that he and his brother would fly on the New Shepard vehicle's first crewed flight, scheduled for July 20.
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Weird nearby gamma-ray burst defies expectationsA team of scientists has gotten their best look yet at a gamma-ray burst, the most dramatic type of explosion in the universe.
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NASA's Curiosity rover spots strange, colorful clouds on MarsNASA's Curiosity rover just spotted a strange type of wispy cloud over its Gale Crater home on Mars.
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China unveils 1st Mars photos from Zhurong roverChina has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the country's Tianwen-1 mission.
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Solar Orbiter captures its 1st video of eruption on the sunA sun-studying spacecraft nabbed its first footage of a solar outburst before its science mission has officially begun.
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Scientists paint best portrait yet of closest known fast radio burstScientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
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Russia is going back to the moon this yearRussia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon.
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NASA delays Mars helicopter Ingenuity's 1st flight to April 14NASA has delayed the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle's last test ended earlier than planned.
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How the 'Worm Moon' helped free the stuck ship Ever Given in the Suez CanalIt took a little help from the full moon to free the massive Ever Given cargo ship from its perch stranded across the Suez Canal.
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Defunct US weather satellite breaks up in Earth orbitA U.S. weather satellite that retired eight years ago has fallen apart in orbit, breaking into at least 16 pieces, according to government representatives.
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This strange lava-rich alien planet is making itself a new atmosphereScientists think they've spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one.
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Scientists still stuck on Betelgeuse antics a year after strange dimming episodeA year ago, the bright red star Betelgeuse in the Orion constellation hit the headlines for a stark fading episode that astronomers couldn't explain. They still can't, although they keep trying.
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Planetary defense experts use infamous asteroid Apophis to practice spotting dangerous space rocksEight years after an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, scientists are taking advantage of a flyby of the infamous asteroid Apophis to practice protecting Earth from space rocks.
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Scientists prepare for their last good look at asteroid Apophis before 2029 flyby
On March 5, wave hello to the most infamous asteroid that won't slam into Earth in 2029. Scientists sure will.
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Welcome to Mars! UAE's Hope probe enters orbit around Red Planet.After a nail-biting 27 minutes, the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) first-ever interplanetary mission has successfully reached orbit around Mars.
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NASA appoints climate advisor to prioritize Earth science in Biden administrationTackling the climate crisis is one of President Joe Biden's top priorities, and NASA has created a new role to match.
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Famous alien-hunting telescope collapsed in December. Now, investigators might know why.An ongoing investigation of the December collapse of the iconic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico offers early evidence a manufacturing issue may have contributed to the failure.
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A neutron-star crash spotted 3 years ago is still pumping out X-rays. But why?Three years ago, two neutron stars collided in a cataclysmic crash, the first such merger ever observed directly. Naturally, scientists kept their eye on it — and now, something strange is happening.
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Astronomers are still reeling from the loss of iconic Arecibo radio telescopeThe collapse of the iconic radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last month has left astronomers with a host of questions about what went wrong and what comes next.
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Scientists think they've detected radio emissions from an alien worldScientists may have detected radio emissions from a planet orbiting a star beyond our sun for the first time.
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Puerto Rican scientists mourn loss of Arecibo Observatory's iconic telescopeIn a year full of terrible new sorrows and burdens, the collapse of Arecibo Observatory's iconic radio telescope feels like a particularly brutal loss to Puerto Ricans.
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Losing Arecibo Observatory would create a hole that can't be filled, scientists sayArecibo Observatory is facing a mid-life crisis — or something much worse.
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Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lostThe National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission Arecibo Observatory's massive radio dish after damage has made the facility too dangerous to repair, the agency announced today (Nov. 19).
