September 19, 2017 Scientists detect strange repeating radio burst on the other side of the cosmos Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have baffled scientists for the past decade. Until recently, we've only seen a FRB repeat once, and now we've observed another. But what does this latest discovery mean?
September 19, 2017 Time travel isn't possible…or is it? Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center.
September 19, 2017 Record-breaking galaxy find sheds light on magnetic universe Astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy located a whopping 5 billion light-years from Earth.
September 19, 2017 Huge 2.7-mile long asteroid set for Earth flyby A massive 2.7-mile long asteroid is set to pass by Earth Friday. There’s no need to worry, though - the asteroid, dubbed Florence, will pass at a safe distance of 4.4 million miles, roughly 18 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
September 19, 2017 $100M E.T. hunt spots 15 mysterious light flashes A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy.
September 19, 2017 Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth after record-breaking spaceflight Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance.
September 19, 2017 Artificial intelligence could help us see farther into space than ever before New AI algorithm is 10 million times faster at analyzing images of so-called "gravitational lenses" in space. That means that analysis which previously took months can now be carried out in a fraction a second.
September 19, 2017 Voyager 1, humanity's farthest spacecraft, marks 40 years in space NASA's Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, a few weeks after its twin, Voyager 2. Together, the two Voyager spacecraft performed an epic "Grand Tour" of the solar system's giant planets, flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
September 19, 2017 Moon's 'tattoos' mystery could be solved by a miniature lunar sky crane A novel mission concept from NASA would lower a small satellite toward the surface of the moon on a 112-mile-long (180 kilometers) tether.
September 19, 2017 Huge black hole 100,000 times more massive than the Sun discovered in the Milky Way Astronomers in Japan have found a possible black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, which they believe could be the missing link in the development of supermassive black holes that has been theorized, but never officially found.