April 30, 2019 'Organs on chips' set for launch to the International Space Station The next resupply mission to the International Space Station will contain sophisticated ‘organs-on-chips’ designed to provide valuable scientific data for future human spaceflight and diseases on Earth.
April 30, 2019 Moon mystery solved? Study suggests giant space rock hit Earth 4.5B years ago A new study suggests that the formation of Earth's Moon may have stemmed from a giant space rock that hit our planet nearly 4.5 billion years ago, while it was still forming.
April 30, 2019 NASA chief warns asteroid threat is real: ‘It’s about protecting the only planet we know to host life' NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is sounding the alarm that an asteroid strike is not something to be taken lightly and is perhaps Earth's biggest threat.
April 30, 2019 The most distant object ever explored is lumpy. And astronomers don't know why. Ultima Thule is lumpy, and scientists aren't sure why.
April 29, 2019 NASA aims to probe mysterious atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune Nearly 30 years after a NASA spacecraft visited the farthest planets in our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, the space agency is looking to go back.
April 29, 2019 NASA gameplans massive asteroid strike World governments have been concerned for decades about a potential asteroid collision and the chaos it would cause Earth. Now, the actions of what agencies around the world are being shared with the public for the first time ever on social media.
April 29, 2019 Boeing didn’t advise airlines, FAA that it shut off warning system Boeing Co. didn’t tell Southwest Airlines Co. and other carriers when they began flying its 737 MAX jets that a safety feature found on earlier models that warns pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated, according to government and industry officials.
April 26, 2019 Physicists closer to solving mystery of weird glowing ring around Milky Way's Black Hole DENVER — Astronomers watched a high-speed gas cloud slam into the matter getting sucked toward Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and then zip away into space.
April 26, 2019 High-altitude auroras create 'speed bumps' for satellites A high-altitude version of the northern lights can create a headwind for some orbiting satellites, a new study reports.
April 26, 2019 China plans to build a base near the Moon's south pole China plans to build a scientific research station on the moon in "about 10 years," according to the state news agency Xinhua.
