June 20, 2017 'We are probably not alone': 10 more planets that could support life found by NASA Ten new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially support life on them have been found by NASA’s planet-hunting telescope.
June 20, 2017 Baby star’s ‘crying’ solves a stellar mystery Astronomers using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have precisely measured the rotating fountains of gas flowing out from a massive newborn star , revealing the complex interplay between the star's magnetism and centrifugal forces.
June 16, 2017 SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city Elon Musk has put his Mars-colonization vision to paper, and you can read it for free.
June 15, 2017 Puzzling Saturn moon Iapetus shows two-tone face in NASA photo Iapetus, a Saturn moon with jumbled colors, shows its strange surface shapes in a new view from the Cassini mission, which is currently exploring the gas giant.
June 14, 2017 Worm grows second head after being launched into space -- and then it does it again If space travel wasn't hard enough, imagine trying to do it with two heads. A flatworm sent to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2015 as part of a biological study grew a second head after the first one had been partially amputated before launch.
June 13, 2017 NASA reschedules plan to create artificial clouds on East Coast, will do it tonight If you were one of the many who diligently tuned in to watch NASA's fancy cloud-building canisters deploy from its rocket and create a bunch of colorful wisps in the atmosphere, you were undoubtedly disappointed to learn that nature's own clouds had ruined the party.
June 13, 2017 Mysterious mazes streak Saturn's moon Titan Enormous labyrinth terrains crisscross the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
June 13, 2017 Here's why astronauts baking bread in space is a big deal When you think of the perks of becoming an astronaut, there's plenty to list: you get to see the Earth from a perspective that only few have shared, you're privy to new science discoveries before the public hears about them, and you get to be one of the few people who grew up to become something they wanted to be as a kid.
June 11, 2017 UFO hunters spot 'weird orb' while lost in hills near Boston Three UFO hunters snapped a photo of a mysterious object while they were lost in the Blue Hills near Boston last week, according to reports.
June 9, 2017 To drink coffee in space, NASA astronauts have to 'suck the balls' As if being in space wasn't hard enough on an astronaut's body, they're forced to drink coffee in a ghastly manner. By making balls and then sucking on them.