Entire cities could fit inside the moon's monstrous lava tubes By Rafi Letzter Vast lava tubes pock the surface of the moon and Mars, and could protect explorers from the elements. But first someone needs to explore them.
Scientists probe the weird, alien water inside of Uranus and Neptune By Chelsea Gohd Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune.
Famous alien-hunting telescope slashed to pieces in mysterious midnight accident By Brandon Specktor Puerto Rico's famous alien-hunting telescope called the Arecibo Observatory took massive damage after a cable snapped in the dead of night.
NASA to stop using racist nicknames for cosmic objects By Doris Elin Salazar NASA will discontinue the use of certain nicknames for astronomical objects that are considered to be racist, the space agency said Aug. 5.
SpaceX wins Pentagon rocket contract to send spy satellites into orbit By Rafi Letzter SpaceX and United Launch Alliance will share the job of launching the Pentagon's most important military equipment from 2022 to 2026.
What would happen if a black hole fell into a wormhole? By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers might detect black holes falling into wormholes via ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, a new study finds.
NASA spacecraft gets a look at one of the strangest places in the solar system By Meghan Bartels For a few months in 2018, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft used up its last drops of fuel, it gave scientists an incredibly detailed look at one of the strangest places in the solar system: Occator Crater.
Is our solar system shaped like a deflated croissant? By Mike Wall The bubble of charged particles that surrounds our solar system looks more like a deflated croissant than a comet, as traditionally envisioned, a recent study suggests.
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.
