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April 16, 2018

Asteroid the size of a football field makes 'surprise' flyby close to Earth

An asteroid the size of a football field buzzed by Earth Sunday in one of the closest encounters the planet has seen in a while.

April 16, 2018

New planets may be forming around young nearby stars, dusty disks suggest

Diverse disks of dusty material have been spotted around nearby young stars, suggesting new planets are sprouting up around the alien stars.

April 16, 2018

Huge solar 'tornadoes' don't spin after all, study shows

Giant plasma "tornadoes" raging across the surface of the sun don't actually spin like astronomers once thought, new research shows.

April 16, 2018

NASA's TESS satellite will super charge search for nearby, Earth-like worlds

On Monday, April 16, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

April 16, 2018

US Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson: Space is an American frontier that must be defended

Today, our objective is deterrence, but our need to study and anticipate change in the nature of warfare is as urgent as it was in the period between WWI and WWII.

April 13, 2018

NASA Tess spacecraft to prowl for planets as galactic scout

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Look up at the sky tonight. Every star you see — plus hundreds of thousands, even millions more — will come under the intense stare of NASA's newest planet hunter.

April 13, 2018

'Superflares' may make it hard for life to thrive on Earth's nearest exoplanet

The nearest exoplanet to Earth may get hit hard by damaging ultraviolet radiation, making it tough for life to survive there, a new study suggests.

April 13, 2018

NASA chooses its next chief scientist: Jim Green

NASA has tapped Jim Green to be its next chief scientist, agency officials announced today (April 10).

April 12, 2018

Why NASA is sending a spacecraft to a metal asteroid called 'Psyche'

An ambitious mission to a "world made of metal" will help scientists better understand how Earth and other rocky planets evolved, according to a new video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

April 11, 2018

'Hole' in the Sun spawns powerful solar wind; could amp up auroras

A massive "hole" on the surface of the sun has unleashed a strong solar wind that scientists say may amp up the northern lights in some areas of the U.S. and could disrupt satellite communications over the next few days.