September 7, 2018 Alien life could exist on worlds overflowing with water, new research suggests Even on alien worlds covered by water, a new study shows that there's a chance for life to survive for a long time — despite previous research showing that's unlikely.
September 6, 2018 Hurricane Irma: Kennedy Space Center suffered 'a variety of damage' during storm, NASA says NASA’s Kennedy Space Center sustained “a variety of damage” as a result of Hurricane Irma, officials have confirmed.
September 6, 2018 Exoplanet 'twice the size of Earth' discovered 145 light-years away An exoplanet twice the size of Earth, known as Wolf 503b, has been found just 145 light-years away from our home planet.
September 6, 2018 NASA's Parker Solar Probe gets closer to 'touching the Sun' NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has deployed key instruments on its historic journey to the Sun.
September 6, 2018 NASA's $1 million Mars-settling challenge: Turn CO2 into sugar If you know your way around a chemistry lab, you could help humanity set up shop on Mars — and make some serious cash in the process.
September 6, 2018 To find alien life, NASA needs bigger, bolder exoplanet-hunting telescopes A congressionally mandated report published today (Sept. 5) by the premier science advisory group in the United States has found that NASA should focus its exoplanet research budget on large space- and ground-based telescopes.
September 6, 2018 Faster than light? Neutron-star merger shot out a jet with seemingly impossible speed The dramatic neutron-star merger that astronomers spotted last year generated a jet of material that seemed to move at four times the speed of light, a new study reports.
September 6, 2018 Chuck Yeager weighs in on 'First Man' controversy Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, weighed in on the controversy surrounding the upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" and filmmakers' decision not to show the planting of the American flag on the Moon during the historic 1969 lunar landing.
September 5, 2018 Supernovas that made the stars may have left traces in meteorites Meteorites may hold new clues about the supernova explosions from which the stars and planets of our solar system formed.
September 5, 2018 Saturn has another weird hexagon, puzzling scientists A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual vortex is circulating hundreds of kilometers above the clouds in the stratosphere layer of the ringed planet's atmosphere, a new study reported.
