April 22, 2019 The Hubble just took a gorgeous new image of the Southern Crab Nebula's wonky gas bubbles Twenty years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a giant crab in the sky.
April 22, 2019 NASA spots mysterious galactic 'jellyfish' in space The government space agency said it had found a "jellyfish"-like galaxy, known as ESO 137-001, with a tail made up of long gas stretching 260,000 light-years across space.
April 19, 2019 NASA wants to send astronauts to the Moon’s mysterious South Pole As President Trump continues to push America's space exploration program forward and have astronauts return to the Moon by 2024, NASA is attempting to do its part – it wants to send astronauts to the Moon's South Pole, a mysterious region that has never been explored by man.
April 19, 2019 China to explore asteroids and comets in upcoming mission Following the successful landing of its Chang'e 4 spacecraft on the far side of the Moon, China is looking to expand its space program by exploring an asteroid and a comet within the next three years.
April 19, 2019 There's a tiny, bright magnetar photobombing our galaxy's supermassive black hole There's a bright magnetar photobombing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, frustrating astronomers' efforts to study the black hole — called Sagittarius A* — using X-ray telescopes.
April 18, 2019 America’s first woman astronaut candidate dead at 88 America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
April 18, 2019 Full ‘Pink moon’: What to know about April's full moon rising Easter weekend This Easter weekend will mark the rising of the full, so-called “pink moon,” the fourth full moon of the year.
April 17, 2019 The hunt is on for the Lunar Library that crashed on the Moon aboard doomed Beresheet probe When Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the Moon last week it was carrying the Lunar Library – a 30-million page archive of humanity’s achievements. The team that compiled the library is confident that it survived the crash and wants to locate it on the lunar surface.
April 17, 2019 NASA mission finds its first Earth-sized alien planet Seven months after finding its first exoplanet, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found its first Earth-sized planet, as well as a "warm sub-Neptune-sized world."
April 17, 2019 We could soon watch a black hole in action, gobbling up matter in real time DENVER — Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever image of a black hole's shadow cast against the hot gas of its accretion disk.
