Moon may outshine Perseid meteor shower this month By Joe Rao Skywatchers beware: The moon will hinder attempts to observe the Perseids, typically one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers.
Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found. By Diane Lincoln A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.
Mysterious 'fast radio burst' detected closer to Earth than ever before By Brandon Specktor Scientists traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to a known star inside the Milky Way for the first time.
China launches 2 satellites from Gobi Desert By Andrew Jones China is continuing its rapid rate of space launches with its 22nd mission of 2020.
Trump says 'NASA was Closed & Dead' before he took charge. That's not true. By Chelsea Gohd President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday (Aug. 5) to announce that he brought NASA back from being "Closed & Dead."
Thousands of Earthlike 'blanets' might circle the Milky Way's central black hole By Rafi Letzter Tens of thousands of planets like Earth and Neptune might orbit the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice sheets By Meghan Bartels Early Mars may not have been quite the warm, wet paradise scientists have hoped for — not if the valleys scarring its surface work the same way as their counterparts here on Earth do.
'I prayed for this one,' SpaceX's Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts' splashdown success By Meghan Bartels
The first SpaceX astronauts are back on Earth By Rafi Letzter SpaceX's Demo-2 test flight ended in the Gulf of Mexico today, about two months since its launch opened the era of commercial crewed spaceflight.
NASA: Mars rover Perseverance in 'safe mode' after launch, but should recover By Meghan Bartels NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover entered "safe mode" after a successful launch Thursday (July 30), but should recover, NASA says.
Why NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will use nuclear power to stay warm By Meghan Bartels A spacecraft is only as strong as its power source, which is why when NASA was designing its Perseverance Mars rover, the agency turned to radioactive plutonium.
Mars Perseverance launches on Thursday. Here's how to watch. By Stephanie Pappas NASA's Mars Perseverance launch, set for Thursday, July 30, will send a new rover to the Red Planet to search for ancient habitable environments and microbial life.
Watch live: NASA launches Mars Perseverance rover to the Red Planet By Jeanna Bryner You can watch the historic NASA launch of the Mars 2020 mission here on Live Science.
How NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will get to the Red Planet By Elizabeth Howell Here are all the major milestones of the Mars 2020 mission to the Red Planet, from launch to landing.
A Martian meteorite is going home, in NASA's Perseverance mission launch By Mindy Weisberger London's Natural History Museum is sending a piece of a Martian meteorite back to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover.
NASA camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth By Meghan Bartels An observatory affiliated with NASA's quest to identify potentially dangerous asteroids spotted something equally speedy but not quite as natural: a spacecraft bound for Mars.
Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiation By Adam Mann Better shielding through chemistry
The curtain is about to come down on Comet NEOWISE By Joe Rao The brightest comet to appear in Northern Hemisphere skies in nearly a quarter of a century will soon be ending its run as a naked-eye object.
SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE By Rafi Letzter The comet NEOWISE is visible in the dawn sky right now, but photographers are facing a new challenge when they try to capture it: the SpaceX fleet of Starlink satellites.
