May 21, 2020 Earth’s magnetic field weakens, impacting satellites and spacecraft: report Earth's magnetic field is gradually weakening in an area that stretches from Africa to South America, and scientists who are trying to understand why.
May 21, 2020 NASA’s Demo-2 launch with SpaceX is 'shot of inspiration' amid coronavirus: Former astronaut Mike Massimino On May 27, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, becoming the first Americans to head into space from U.S. soil since 2011.
May 21, 2020 NASA will pay people to spend 8 months in a lockdown to simulate missions to Mars and the moon NASA's long-term goal is to have astronauts head to Mars in the 2030s, but before it gets there, it's going to pay people to act like they're headed to the Red Planet.
May 21, 2020 Massive, rotating disk galaxy from the early universe discovered A massive, rotating disk galaxy from the early universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.
May 20, 2020 Steve Carell 'named' Space Force boss in Air Force museum's 'creative and humorous prank' A biography of the fictional Gen. Mark R. Naird played by Steve Carrell in the Netflix comedy series "Space Force" was used to replace a photo of the real-life chief of the actual Space Force, Gen. John Raymond, at the Air Force Museum in Ohio in an apparent prank-gone-viral.
May 20, 2020 Baby exoplanet seen growing around star system in stunning photo The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captured a stunning image of a planet being born around a young star located 520 light-years from Earth.
May 20, 2020 Pence says upcoming SpaceX launch will show 'America still moves forward' during 'the most challenging times' When the last space shuttle launched in 2011, few people at NASA believed it would be nearly a decade before American astronauts would launch into space again from U.S. soil.
May 19, 2020 NASA's head of human spaceflight resigns just days before first manned SpaceX launch NASA's head of human spaceflight resigned Monday, sending shockwaves through the agency and the entire space industry just eight days before the first launch of NASA astronauts from the U.S. in nearly a decade.
May 19, 2020 Astronomer puts odds on extraterrestrial life existing: 'Universe teeming with life ... the favored bet' Despite no clear-cut evidence, mankind has wondered for eons whether we're alone in the universe. One astronomer, however, is almost sure that extraterrestrial life exists.
May 19, 2020 US Space Force launches mystery space plane The U.S. Space Force launched a secretive unmanned space plane into orbit on Sunday, just days after President Trump unveiled the flag for the new U.S. military branch.
