May 2, 2016 Smithsonian unveils Armstrong bag with Apollo 11 lunar artifacts It’s been 46 years since Neil Armstrong took “one giant leap for mankind” when he became the first person to set foot on the moon. Now, visitors of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum have the opportunity to get an up-close look at some of the astronaut’s outer space mementos that were meant to be left on the moon.
May 2, 2016 Wow! Hubble telescope sees rare 3-Moon shadow dance on Jupiter NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured three of Jupiter's moons marching across the huge planet's disc, a stunning sight that happens only once or twice every 10 years.
May 2, 2016 Scientists: What it would be like to enter a black hole Interstellar travelers who find themselves entering a black hole might want to have some air sickness pills handy. According to a report in an upcoming “Physical Review Letters,” researchers from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto have found that interacting ripples in spacetime are capable of creating turbulence in the vicinity of a black hole.
May 2, 2016 Hubble Space Telescope could survive through 2020, scientists say Scientists working with the long-lived Hubble Space Telescope say that the intrepid eye on the sky could continue functioning through 2020, and even beyond.
May 2, 2016 Some earthlike alien planets may begin as 'mini-Neptunes' Some Earthlike alien worlds may have looked a lot more like miniature versions of Neptune when they were born.
May 2, 2016 Astronaut sees huge winter storm from space (Photos) The monster winter storm that dumped loads of snow on the northeastern United States on Monday and Tuesday (Jan. 26 and 27) looked pretty beastly from 250 miles above the planet.
May 2, 2016 Space probe launched to study northern lights NASA and Utah State University successfully launched a probe into the northern lights early on Wednesday.
May 2, 2016 Found! 5 ancient alien planets nearly as old as the universe Five rocky alien worlds that are 80 percent as old as the universe itself have been discovered, suggesting that Earth-size planets have been a feature of the Milky Way galaxy almost since its beginning.
May 2, 2016 They want to believe: UFO hunters plan database to track sightings An investigative organization has kick-started the creation of a worldwide UFO database, which will allow people around the globe to report their supposed extraterrestrial encounters.
May 2, 2016 CU-Boulder pitches telescope that could image at higher-res than Hubble It looks like the Hubble Space Telescope could have some competition. Researchers at the University of Colorado will update NASA this week on the Aragoscope, their space telescope concept that could potentially provide images that are up to 1,000 times sharper than those from Hubble, according to a CU-Boulder press release.
