June 20, 2016 Mars wants you! Retro posters invite red planet explorers A new series of NASA posters, free to download, depict Martian explorers surveying the world's alien landscape, growing food, making repairs and teaching youngsters on the surface of the Red Planet.
June 17, 2016 Green skies: Solar Impulse 2 pilot eyes renewable energy future Solar Impulse 2, which flew over the Statue of Liberty on its historic solar-powered global journey Saturday, continues to prove the vast potential of renewable energy, according to pilot Bertrand Piccard.
June 17, 2016 Solar Impulse 2 makes Statue of Liberty flyby, arrives in New York Solar Impulse 2 arrived in New York City early Saturday to complete the latest leg of its epic zero fuel journey around the world.
June 17, 2016 Scientists discover oxygen in distant, early galaxy Using an array of antennas in the mountains of Chile, scientists have discovered the presence of oxygen a long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.
June 17, 2016 What does Mars smell like? Robot explorers have found Mars to be a world of sulfur, acids, magnesium, iron and chlorine compounds, all of which are sunbaked and wrapped in a carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere.
June 17, 2016 Surprise! Newfound asteroid is 'quasi-moon' of Earth It seems the moon is not Earth's only cosmic companion.
June 16, 2016 NASA offers $500K to anyone who can grow lifelike human tissue for space experiments NASA is offering $500,000 to split between the first three teams that grow human organ tissue in a laboratory.
June 16, 2016 Gravitational wave detector finds double colliding black holes — again Distortions in the fabric of space-time, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, have been directly detected for the second time.
June 15, 2016 SpaceX launches satellites, but rocket landing suffers 'unscheduled disassembly' SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Wednesday morning, successfully deploying two communications satellites but failing to land the rocket’s first stage on a floating barge, a feet the company had said would be hard.
June 15, 2016 Private cargo ship leaves space station to ignite record-breaking fire experiment A private cargo ship left the International Space Station June 14 and will soon host the biggest fire-in-space experiment ever conducted.
