October 22, 2019 Epic space time-lapse captured from International Space Station A stunning time-lapse captured by the International Space Station shows the Earth, stars and even events like thunderstorms and wildfires.
October 22, 2019 Humans can land on Mars by 2035, NASA chief says NASA chief Jim Bridenstine reiterated his stance that the space agency will be able to land humans on Mars in the 2030s, going so far as to say it could be done by the middle of that decade.
October 22, 2019 A faux Saturn moon Titan on Earth could solve solar system mystery Big, schmancy compounds keep popping up all over the solar system , and new research may help clear up confusion about how they form in so many places.
October 22, 2019 Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs turned oceans into acid, shocking study says A newly released study shows that the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs also acidified the planet's oceans.
October 21, 2019 NASA's Lucy mission to study the Trojan asteroids clears critical milestone NASA's Lucy mission, which is set to be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, successfully completed its critical design review.
October 21, 2019 Ozone hole is the smallest on record due to 'rare event,' NASA says Unusual weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica caused a drastic reduction in the ozone depletion, leaving the ozone with the smallest hole seen since its discovery in 1982, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
October 21, 2019 Fireball that flew over Japan in 2017 was tiny piece of giant asteroid that might one day threaten Earth In the early morning of April 28, 2017, a small fireball crept across the sky over Kyoto, Japan. And now, thanks to data collected by the SonotaCo meteor survey, researchers have determined that the fiery space rock was a shard of a much larger asteroid that might (far down the road) threaten Earth.
October 18, 2019 Trump calls to congratulate 'brilliant' NASA astronauts during their historic all-female spacewalk President Donald Trump called NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir during their historic first all-female spacewalk Friday.
October 18, 2019 NASA astronauts make history with first all-female spacewalk NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have made history with the first all-female spacewalk.
October 18, 2019 Milky Way galaxy is a cosmic thief A newly published study notes that the Milky Way stole several dwarf galaxies from the neighboring galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), including the Carina and Fornax, because of an ongoing merger between the two.