NASA to land 1st person of color on the moon with Artemis program By Chelsea Gohd NASA will land the first person of color in addition to the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program, NASA's Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed today (April 9).
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is 'go' for historic 1st flight on Sunday By Elizabeth Howell Humanity's first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff.
NASA detects rare 'double quasar' in ancient corner of the universe By Brandon Specktor Astronomers just detected two pairs of rare 'double quasars' about 10 billion light-years away. They are the oldest in the known universe.
Two satellites might collide at 32,000 mph over the Arctic today By Rafi Letzter There's a 20% chance of a disastrous collision, according to the European Union.
Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blow By Ben Turner Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.
The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2024 is just 3 years away By Joe Rao Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great American Solar Eclipse.
'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology By Adam Mann A team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology
Black holes: The darkest objects in the universe By Paul Sutter Find out what black holes are, who discovered them, how we know they exist and what would happen if you fell into a black hole.
A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core By Ben Turner But this may not be the end of the story.
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red Planet By Mike Wall The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.
SpaceX identifies cause of Starship SN11 prototype's crash By Mike Wall The stainless-steel SN11 didn't stick its landing last week because of a plumbing problem, according to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.
What's up with this weird green rock on Mars? Perseverance rover is trying to find out. By Elizabeth Howell Perseverance's laser hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.
Mysterious X-rays are flaring out of Uranus By Brandon Specktor Astronomers detected X-rays flaring out of Uranus for the first time. It could be a case of solar scattering, or some as-yet unknown process.
Spooky 'spiders on Mars' finally explained after two decades By Brandon Specktor Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.
Debris from SpaceX rocket launch falls on farm in central Washington By Hanneke Weitering A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone's farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2).
Interstellar interloper 2I/Borisov may be the most pristine comet ever observed By Charles Q. Choi The first known interstellar comet to visit our solar system may be the most pristine ever found, never passing near a star until visiting our own, researchers say.
China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft captures stunning crescent Mars photos By Andrew Jones China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mars as a bright red sunlit crescent in deep space.
How long would it take to walk around the moon? By Harry Baker Walking around the moon could be faster than we originally thought, but actually doing it would require some serious planning.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snaps scenic selfie at 'Mont Mercou' By Samantha Mathewson NASA's Mars rover Curiosity posed for a selfie in front of a beautiful Martian rock outcrop called "Mont Mercou" after probing the area for clues about the Red Planet's past.
These weird lumps of 'inflatons' could be the very first structures in the universe By Mara Johnson-Groh An ultra-high-resolution simulation of a tiny slice of the universe — a million times smaller than a proton — has revealed the very first structures to ever exist.
