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April 30, 2018

Heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover cracks during test

The heat shield for NASA's upcoming Mars rover suffered a fracture during testing recently, but the incident won't change the mission's launch date, agency officials said.

April 27, 2018

NASA pushes for Moon, deep space with crucial tests

With the moon as its immediate goal, NASA is pushing hard on deep space exploration.

April 27, 2018

Bam! Cannon experiment shows how asteroids delivered water to Earth

An experiment that involved shooting meteorite-like projectiles at volcanic rocks has revealed how high-velocity asteroid impacts could have delivered water to Earth.

April 27, 2018

Scientists peer across the universe and find an ancient galactic collision

Astronomers set their sights on an area incredibly far away — more than 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — and found the beginnings of a massive cosmic collision, according to two new studies.

April 26, 2018

Beer in space? Cutting-edge project touts unique zero gravity brew

Will you be the very lucky first person in history to drink a delicious, ice cold beer in space?

April 26, 2018

Liftoff! Europe's newest 'sentinel' satellite will study Earth's seas, land and air

Europe's newest Earth-observation satellite has taken flight.

April 24, 2018

Uranus discovery fulfills cosmic punchline

Scientists using the huge telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano have discovered the world's most obvious space joke.

April 24, 2018

Saturn may be the missing piece in the puzzle of Jupiter's moons

Saturn may have played a key role in the birth of Jupiter's largest moons, a new study finds.

April 23, 2018

Here's how we know the Big Bang happened

At 13.8 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was the size of a peach and had a temperature of over a trillion degrees.

April 23, 2018

NASA baffled by mysterious ice circles in Arctic

A NASA aircraft has spotted something in the Arctic that it can't explain and it has "never seen before."