Catch the full moon (and a penumbral eclipse) on Monday By Laura Geggel A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs at the same time as November's full moon.
A Thanksgiving sun treat: Big sunspot rotates into view By Elizabeth Howell A group of sunspots has emerged on the Earth-facing side of the sun, just in time for Thanksgiving.
Is China winning the new space race? By John Bridges China has been the only country to land on the moon for over 40 years – since the Soviet Luna program.
Swarms of 'primordial' black holes might fill our universe By Rafi Letzter What if dark matter weren't a new type of matter at all, but huge swarms of tiny, "primordial" black holes?
Arecibo radio telescope, damaged beyond repair, seen from space By Chelsea Gohd Satellites spotted gashes in the damaged Arecibo Observatory, which will be decommissioned.
Spacecraft with precious asteroid cargo is almost home after 3 billion-mile trek By Michelle Starr On Dec. 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth.
Faint 'super-planet' discovered by radio telescope for the 1st time By Samantha Mathewson Scientists have discovered a cold, faint "super-planet" that has remained elusive to traditional infrared survey methods.
Hubble captures a black hole's 'shadow beams,' yawning across space By Michelle Starr In images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have spotted an entirely new phenomenon.
Stratolaunch starts building Talon hypersonic plane for Mach 6 flights By Elizabeth Howell Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype of a Mach 6 vehicle designed to launch from the world's biggest airplane.
China launches historic Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976 By Mike Wall The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.
Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs By Amanda Jane Hughes, Stefanie Soldini It sounds like science fiction.
Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video) By Samantha Mathewson A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean.
Physicists built an 'anti-laser' to charge your phone from across a room By Rafi Letzter A device demonstrated in a groundbreaking new experiment acts like a laser, only backwards. And someday it might send power invisibly through the air.
Astronomers detect millions of signals from an intelligent civilization: Us By Michelle Starr The Universe seems like a lonely place.
Losing Arecibo Observatory would create a hole that can't be filled, scientists say By Meghan Bartels Arecibo Observatory is facing a mid-life crisis — or something much worse.
STEVE is smearing green 'streaks' across the sky, and nobody knows why By Brandon Specktor Astronomers report a strange new feature of the aurora-like STEVE, which they are calling 'streaks.'
Arecibo radio telescope, an icon of astronomy, is lost By Meghan Bartels The 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).
The dazzling Blue Ring Nebula puzzled scientists for 16 years — and now they finally understand why By Samantha Mathewson Scientists have uncovered new evidence of the mysterious fluorescent debris that makes up the Blue Ring Nebula.
'Baby Yoda' revealed as astronauts' zero-g indicator on SpaceX Crew-1 mission By Robert Z. Pearlman A few hours after launching to the International Space Station, the Crew-1 astronauts showed off their fifth crew member — a small plush doll of "The Child" or "Baby Yoda."
Physicists discover the 'Kings and Queens of Quantumness' By Adam Mann A new mathematical framework helps physicists define the degree of quantumness of a system
