May 29, 2018 Trump's new space policy directive 2 could make life easier for SpaceX and others The Trump administration's push to ease regulations on private industry is no longer confined to Earth.
May 24, 2018 Mysterious medium-size black holes may lurk at the centers of small galaxies The hearts of small galaxies may hide a mysterious kind of black hole that has long proved elusive: medium-size black holes with masses between the mass of a few suns and that of millions of suns, a new study finds.
May 22, 2018 China makes move in quest to be first to the dark side of moon While China and the US go back and forth on tariffs here on Earth, the former is forging ahead with a more celestial grand plan.
May 21, 2018 Elon Musk shows off incredible SpaceX human transport pod on Instagram, Twitter SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to social media to show off a look at the company's Crew Dragon ship, which could be used in the future to transport humans in space.
May 21, 2018 Does humanity really need a backup Earth? SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. He already wowed the world this year, when the Falcon Heavy launched and flung a Tesla car toward the asteroid belt. And this heavy-lift rocket will be dwarfed by the boosters Musk plans for Mars exploration, which he says will carry colonists in fleets of ships to the Red Planet.
May 17, 2018 Moon dust could give astronauts permanent DNA damage, study finds In space, they say, no one can hear you sneeze. But Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was doing a lot of that inside the Challenger command module when he visited the moon in 1972.
May 17, 2018 Tiny, Mars-bound satellite snaps its first image of Earth and the Moon A tiny satellite on its way to Mars has opened its eyes and captured a view of home.
May 16, 2018 NASA astronauts spacewalk on ISS to fix coolant pumps A couple of spacewalking veterans floated outside the International Space Station Tuesday morning for the first of two planned spacewalks.
May 16, 2018 NASA satellite falls to Earth after 2 decades in space On April 30, after more than 20 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) satellite re-entered and burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
May 16, 2018 Elon Musk says SpaceX will reuse a rocket within 24 hours in 2019 SpaceX has big plans for the latest version of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
