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Super-precise clock tech wins $3 million physics Breakthrough PrizeTwo physicists just snagged $3 million for helping develop a super-precise clock that could allow scientists to study and explore the universe like never before.
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Amazing Hubble telescope photo shows space 'sword' piercing huge celestial 'heart'A flaming blue sword seems to pierce a giant cosmic heart in a gorgeous new photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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SpaceX's Dragon docks at ISS in time for astronaut's birthdayThe robotic Dragon capsule delivered about 4,800 lbs. (2,200 kilograms) of supplies and scientific gear to the orbiting lab.
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Alien life could thrive on big 'Hycean' exoplanetsThe search for alien life should broaden its horizons a bit, a new study suggests.
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Fastest-orbiting asteroid in solar system discoveredThe newfound asteroid 2021 PH27 completes one lap around our star every 113 Earth days. That's the shortest orbital period of any known solar system object except the planet Mercury.
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Chinese satellite got whacked by hunk of Russian rocket in MarchThe partial breakup of China's Yunhai 1-02 military satellite on March 18 is no longer mysterious.
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SpaceX's Starship could be ready for 1st orbital test flight 'in a few weeks,' Elon Musk saysBut don't expect it to actually launch so soon.
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Perseverance rover aims for its 1st sample of Mars, comes up emptyPerseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars rock or dirt made it into the sampling tube.
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Rocket Lab is back in business, with launch of US military satelliteThe company's Electron rocket launched a small satellite for the U.S. military early Thursday morning (July 29), acing its first mission since a failure in mid-May.
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With Virgin Galactic's launch of Richard Branson in the books, all eyes are on Blue Origin and Jeff BezosRichard Bransons' flight Sunday (July 11) was just the first of two planned billionaire spaceflights this month. Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos is scheduled to fly on July 20.
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Methane wafting from 'tiger stripes' on Saturn moon could be sign of alien life, study suggestsThe methane wafting from Enceladus may be a sign that life teems in the Saturn moon's subsurface sea, a new study reports.
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Mars may have dozens of lakes beneath its south poleMuch more liquid water may lie beneath Mars' south pole than scientists had thought — or there may be something going on down there that they don't fully understand.
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Giant ghostly 'hand' stretches through space in new X-ray viewsAn enormous, ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like something out of sci-fi, but it's quite real.
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NASA spacecraft spots China's Mars rover Zhurong heading south on Red Planet (photo)China's first-ever Mars rover was on the move earlier this month, imagery by a NASA spacecraft shows.
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Scientists spot earliest-known supermassive black hole 'storm'Scientists have found the earliest known "storm" generated by a supermassive black hole, a discovery that could shed considerable light on the coevolution of galaxies and their central black holes.
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Why one of the brightest stars in the sky mysteriously started to dimAstronomers may have solved the mystery of Betelgeuse's bizarre brightness drop.
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NASA asteroid-hunting satellite clears hurdle on path to 2026 launchNASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move into "preliminary design," its next phase of development on the road to a planned liftoff in 2026.
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Curiosity rover on Mars spotted from space as it climbs 'Mont Mercou'NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic image last month of Curiosity ascending Mont Mercou, a landform on the slopes of the Red Planet's 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mt. Sharp.
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UFO answers coming soon? The Pentagon to report on mysterious sightings.We could soon start getting answers to some vexing UFO questions.
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'Library of the Great Silence' invites E.T. to share long-term survival strategiesIntelligent aliens will soon have a space here on Earth where they can share how they made it through their technological adolescence.
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NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has found some mysterious rocks (photos)For the past five weeks, Perseverance has been focused primarily on supporting and documenting the flights of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. But the rover has been doing some science work, too.
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Huge Chinese rocket booster falls to Earth over Arabian PeninsulaThe 23-ton core stage of a Chinese Long March 5B booster crashed back to Earth Saturday night (May 8), ending 10 controversial days aloft that captured the attention of the world.
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Stratolaunch flies world's largest airplane on 2nd test flightStratolaunch's Roc carrier plane, which is being groomed to haul hypersonic vehicles aloft, conducted its second-ever test flight Thursday morning (April 29).
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Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes long distance in 3rd flight on Red PlanetIngenuity aced its third-ever Martian flight early Sunday morning (April 25), adding to its already impressive resume.
