November 12, 2018 This space station air recycler could help astronauts breathe easier on Mars A new life-support system that can recycle breathable air is being installed at the International Space Station, promising to dramatically decrease the amount of water that needs to be brought to the orbital outpost to make oxygen.
November 9, 2018 Rare Apollo 11 US flag flown to the Moon sells at auction As the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission gets closer, a U.S. flag that flew to the Moon during the mission sold at auction for an out of this world sum: $62,500.
November 9, 2018 Are aliens real? All the UFO sightings, evidence on whether extraterrestrials exist and conspiracy theories Do aliens really exist? This question has caused debate and controversy among humans for centuries.
November 9, 2018 Why NASA chose a 'vanilla ice cream' landing site on Mars for the InSight Lander Sometimes, boring is best — and that's certainly true when you're trying to set a lander down on the surface of Mars, where any eventfulness is likely bad news.
November 8, 2018 NASA figures out where weirdly square iceberg was born Earlier this month, NASA published a strange and entrancing photo of a ridiculously square iceberg.
November 8, 2018 Diamond-shaped asteroid captured by NASA spacecraft stuns scientists With help from its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, NASA researchers spotted quite a gem last week.
November 8, 2018 NASA's Parker Solar Probe has 'succeeded' after it whizzed past the Sun for the first time After becoming the closest spacecraft to the Sun last month, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has gotten even closer, coming within 15 million of our solar system's star on its own, a feat NASA has called a success.
November 8, 2018 End of days? Telescope images reveal what happens when galaxies collide Scientists have managed to capture, for the first time, a series of images showing what happens when galaxies collide and merge together, causing a massive explosion and supermassive black holes uniting to form one giant black hole.
November 7, 2018 Creepy orange 'airglow' surrounds the Earth According to the government space agency, the airglow is "diffuse bands of light that stretch 50 to 400 miles into our atmosphere." It typically occurs when molecules, largely nitrogen and oxygen "energized by ultraviolet radiation from sunlight."
November 7, 2018 Space shocker: Astronomers confirm Earth has two hidden 'dust bunnies' floating around it A new study may finally confirm the reality of dust clouds that have circled the Earth, after scientists have had heated debates over their existence for more than 50 years.
