May 21, 2018 Mysterious 'Planet Nine' gets more evidence from weird space rock The solar system just got a bit stranger. As astronomers continue their ongoing quest to find the elusive Planet Nine, a team found a space rock that lends credence to the idea that a huge super-Earth planet really exists in the outer reaches of our solar system.
May 21, 2018 China launches relay satellite for mission to Moon's far side China just launched a spacecraft that will help pave the way for a historic mission to the moon's far side later this year.
May 21, 2018 Does humanity really need a backup Earth? SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. He already wowed the world this year, when the Falcon Heavy launched and flung a Tesla car toward the asteroid belt. And this heavy-lift rocket will be dwarfed by the boosters Musk plans for Mars exploration, which he says will carry colonists in fleets of ships to the Red Planet.
May 21, 2018 NASA is launching a box of lasers to make the coldest spot in the universe With an experiment launching to the International Space Station Monday (May 21), scientists will be able to create a temperature that's 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space to focus in on atoms' weird quantum behavior.
May 18, 2018 Stunning NASA study shows humans are responsible for major changes to Earth's water availability A stunning new study from NASA highlights the impact humans are having on fresh water availability across the globe, mentioning climate change and several other factors.
May 18, 2018 Black hole traffic accidents may produce monster mergers New research reveals that some black hole collisions may cascade, with the dense objects crashing into one another to create even more-massive black holes.
May 17, 2018 National Hurricane Center gives sneak peek of newly improved technology The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is using newly improved technology to warn of major storms as Floridians brace for another active hurricane season set to begin in just a few days.
May 17, 2018 North Korea lying? Satellite data suggest China, Russia, North Korea may be falsifying GDP numbers A new research paper suggests that authoritarian regimes, in countries like China, Russia and North Korea are manipulating their gross domestic product (GDP), perhaps by as much as 15 to 30 percent in any one year.
May 17, 2018 Moon dust could give astronauts permanent DNA damage, study finds In space, they say, no one can hear you sneeze. But Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was doing a lot of that inside the Challenger command module when he visited the moon in 1972.
May 17, 2018 Tiny, Mars-bound satellite snaps its first image of Earth and the Moon A tiny satellite on its way to Mars has opened its eyes and captured a view of home.
