June 17, 2016 Scientists discover oxygen in distant, early galaxy Using an array of antennas in the mountains of Chile, scientists have discovered the presence of oxygen a long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away.
June 17, 2016 What does Mars smell like? Robot explorers have found Mars to be a world of sulfur, acids, magnesium, iron and chlorine compounds, all of which are sunbaked and wrapped in a carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere.
June 17, 2016 Surprise! Newfound asteroid is 'quasi-moon' of Earth It seems the moon is not Earth's only cosmic companion.
June 16, 2016 NASA offers $500K to anyone who can grow lifelike human tissue for space experiments NASA is offering $500,000 to split between the first three teams that grow human organ tissue in a laboratory.
June 16, 2016 Gravitational wave detector finds double colliding black holes — again Distortions in the fabric of space-time, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, have been directly detected for the second time.
June 15, 2016 SpaceX launches satellites, but rocket landing suffers 'unscheduled disassembly' SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Wednesday morning, successfully deploying two communications satellites but failing to land the rocket’s first stage on a floating barge, a feet the company had said would be hard.
June 15, 2016 Private cargo ship leaves space station to ignite record-breaking fire experiment A private cargo ship left the International Space Station June 14 and will soon host the biggest fire-in-space experiment ever conducted.
June 14, 2016 Scientists find rare 'Tatooine' double-star planet Named Kepler-1647 b, the newly-discovered planet is located 3,700 light years from Earth, and thought to be similar in age to our planet, around 4.4 billion years old.
June 13, 2016 One out of three on Earth live in places too bright to see the Milky Way Nearly 80 percent of North Americans and a staggering one-third of people on Earth now can’t see the Milky Way, a new study says.
June 13, 2016 On July 4, the Juno spacecraft will finally reach Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft will enter into orbit around Jupiter on the Fourth of July, completing a journey of over 1.7 billion miles that began on August 5, 2011.
