February 21, 2019 Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe set to 'fire a bullet' into an asteroid The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft will briefly touchdown onto asteroid Ryugu Thursday evening, firing a scientific research “bullet” into the space rock.
February 21, 2019 Israel's Moon landing mission set for liftoff Israel will launch its historic mission to land on the Moon when the unmanned Beresheet spacecraft lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday.
February 21, 2019 Stunning images show Earth's natural beauty in new NASA book NASA is celebrating Earth's incredible natural beauty with a new book featuring stunning images collected from the space agency's many satellites.
February 21, 2019 A brilliant daytime meteor exploded over Cuba this month. Here's where it came from Astronomers just got the goods on the meteor that flared up over Cuba earlier this month.
February 21, 2019 'Rubber Ducky' comet is stressed and keeps cracking its neck The rubber ducky comet's head has spent 4.5 billion years trying to twist away from its neck.
February 20, 2019 NASA spots mysterious 'dragon' aurora in the sky NASA released a spectacular image of a huge "dragon" aurora charging quietly across the night sky over Iceland.
February 20, 2019 Searching for Planet Nine, scientist finds ancient star with mysterious rings The hunt for Planet Nine has so far eluded researchers, but one citizen scientist working on a project to find the evasive celestial body has found something just as remarkable – a 3-billion-year-old dwarf star that has dust rings circling it.
February 20, 2019 'Super snow moon' stuns as the biggest supermoon of 2019 lights up the sky Skygazers have been enjoying the “super snow moon” as the largest supermoon of 2019 lit up the sky.
February 20, 2019 'River of stars' streaming through the Milky Way was hiding in plain sight for 1 billion years One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy.
February 19, 2019 Trump directs Pentagon to draft Space Force proposal President Trump on Tuesday formally directed the Department of Defense to draft legislation creating a so-called Space Force within the U.S. Air Force – in a bid to launch the first new branch of the military in more than 70 years.
