May 2, 2016 Mars life search: Iron-rich rocks could be key A robotic mission's search for life on Mars may seem worlds away from human scientists wandering around hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.
May 2, 2016 NASA unveils spectacular photo for Hubble Telescope's 25th birthday An awe-inspiring landscape of multicolored dust and jewel-like stars has been unveiled as the official image of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope.
May 2, 2016 Newfound alien planet is one of the farthest ever detected A NASA telescope has co-discovered one of the most distant planets ever identified: a gas giant about 13,000 light-years away from Earth.
May 2, 2016 Meteorites help date the violent birth of Earth's moon The cataclysmic collision between Earth and a Mars-size object that forged the moon may have occurred about 4.47 billion years ago, suggests a study of meteorites with ancient fragments from that cosmic impact.
May 2, 2016 Why SpaceX is attempting to land rockets on a floating barge With cheaper spaceflight the ultimate goal, SpaceX is the first space organization to attempt a rocket landing on a floating base, or, as the company calls it, an “autonomous spaceport drone ship.” Still, it begs the question- why attempt the landing at sea?
May 2, 2016 Spooky ring of light created by Arctic's ice-mapping lasers (Photo) It may look like the setting for a sci-fi film, but a new photo of a backward-C-shaped pattern of lights against a desolate blue background has a more terrestrial origin
May 2, 2016 NASA releases first color image of Pluto and its moon Charon NASA has just released the first color image ever taken of Pluto and its moon Charon. The image was taken by the Ralph color imager that is stationed aboard the New Horizon spacecraft -- the fastest ever launched -- which is on a historic mission to study Pluto up-close.
May 2, 2016 SpaceX rocket landing attempt: Close again, but no cigar It’s “close again, but no cigar” for SpaceX in its latest ambitious attempt to land a booster rocket on a floating platform off the coast of Florida.
May 2, 2016 On Mars, liquid water appears at night, study suggests Liquid water lurks just below the surface of Mars on cold winter nights, according to new research.
May 2, 2016 Freakish asteroid likely spun so fast it exploded An odd asteroid rotated so fast that it blew itself apart, a new study suggests.
