May 2, 2016 Closest rocky alien planet discovered Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that lies just 21 light-years from Earth — closer than any other confirmed rocky alien world.
May 2, 2016 Blue Moon full moon rises tonight: What to expect There's a "Blue Moon" in the sky tonight — but that doesn't mean the lunar surface will turn indigo.
May 2, 2016 Stunning photo shows SpaceShipTwo pilot parachuting to Earth after crash It is a picture of bravery in the face of the unthinkable.
May 2, 2016 UK gov't: Earth will only have 12-hour warning to deal with massive Sun explosion It sounds like a scene from a disaster movie – mass power failures, plane crashes, satellite disruptions, and train derailments. These are some of the threats modern society would face in the case of a massive solar storm, according to a new document released by the U.K. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
May 2, 2016 NASA's Curiosity rover eyes weird rock on Mars NASA's Mars rover Curiosity went out of its way to investigate a rock the likes of which it has never seen before on the Red Planet.
May 2, 2016 Ancient huts may reveal clues to Earth's magnetic pole reversals The fiery demise of ancient huts in southern Africa 1,000 years ago left clues to understanding a bizarre weak spot in the Earth's magnetic field — and the role it plays in the magnetic poles' periodic reversals.
May 2, 2016 NASA’s Kepler mission discovers Earth’s older, bigger cousin NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star, the agency announced Thursday.
May 2, 2016 New NASA image reveals second mountain range in Pluto’s ‘heart’ A new image from the New Horizons spacecraft’s Pluto flyby has revealed a second mountain range within a heart-shaped region on the dwarf planet’s surface.
May 2, 2016 NASA camera captures stunning Earth image A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory has captured its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.
May 2, 2016 Stephen Hawking helps launch massive search for E.T. A new $100 million, 10-year search for intelligent life in the universe was announced Monday by famed scientist Stephen Hawking and other researchers.
