August 24, 2018 NASA will launch a laser into space next month to track Earth's melting ice NASA is preparing to launch a cutting-edge, laser-armed satellite that will spend three years studying Earth's changing ice sheets from above.
August 23, 2018 Pence sets sights on Moon, Mars, in NASA speech Vice President Mike Pence highlighted the critical importance of the Moon to America’s space future in a speech at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Thursday.
August 23, 2018 'Potentially hazardous,' 500-foot asteroid set to zoom past Earth at 20,000 mph NASA has issued an alert that a "potentially hazardous asteroid" is on a "close approach" towards Earth.
August 23, 2018 NASA reveals 'hammer' plans to prevent an asteroid from killing humanity Terrified of an asteroid hitting Earth and wiping us all out? Fret not: NASA has a plan.
August 22, 2018 Why we can't depend on robots to find life on Mars A Senate subcommittee asked for reasons to support sending humans to Mars, and, boy, did they get one from Ellen Stofan, NASA's former chief scientist.
August 22, 2018 Physicists think they've spotted the ghosts of black holes from another universe We are not living in the first universe. There were other universes, in other eons, before ours, a group of physicists has said. Like ours, these universes were full of black holes. And we can detect traces of those long-dead black holes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — the radioactive remnant of our universe's violent birth.
August 22, 2018 NASA's Orion spacecraft gets heat shield for daring test flight to the Moon NASA's Orion spacecraft — which will eventually carry humans to locations beyond low Earth orbit, such as the moon — just got its heat shield for a test mission that will take place in 2019 or 2020.
August 22, 2018 Monster black hole 'feeding frenzy' hides hundreds of galaxies in new photo Scientists have found hundreds of galaxies hiding in plain sight, cloaked by the light emitted from an extremely active supermassive black hole.
August 21, 2018 Eerie sky glow is 'completely unknown' to science Late at night on July 25, 2016, a thin river of purple light slashed through the skies of northern Canada in an arc that seemed to stretch hundreds of miles into space. It was a magnificent, mysterious, borderline-miraculous sight, and the group of citizen skywatchers who witnessed it decided to give the phenomenon a fittingly majestic name: "Steve."
August 21, 2018 Stunning Moon discovery: Frozen surface water found on the Moon's polar regions, could aid space exploration In a discovery that could have major implications for the future of humanity, researchers have found frozen surface water on the Moon for the first time.
