Space
SpaceX Founder Set to Unveil Humans-to-Mars Plan in September
Challenges facing Elon Musk’s project include getting return-trip fuel from Martian resources
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Hibernating-Star Explosion Provides First Evidence of Nova Cycle
Evidence of additional mini outbursts leading up to the so-called classical nova provides the first direct evidence for the nova hibernation hypothesis, which suggests a cyclical evolution of such stars...
Space
NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission in 3 Weeks
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is expected to return a pristine sample of the potentially hazardous space rock Bennu to Earth in September 2023
Space
A Sixth Success! SpaceX Again Lands Rocket on a Ship at Sea
The private spaceflight company has landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the sixth time in the last eight months
Space
NASA’s 2020 Rover Will Carry Microphones to Mars
For the first time, human beings will hear sounds from the Red Planet's surface
Space
Astronomers Watch as Io’s Atmosphere Collapses
Jupiter's shadow makes this volcanic moon's atmosphere freeze solid once per day
Space
Private Company Cleared for Moon Landing in 2017
Government approves robot mission for Moon Express, which wants to mine our satellite
Space
Rosetta Mission Confirms Comets’ Antiquity
A new study of cometary geology shows the objects are relics from the primordial solar system
Space
Is Earth Safe from Asteroid Bennu?
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will reveal just how threatening this near-Earth asteroid could be
Space
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot May Broil Planet's Atmosphere
Hottest temperatures ever seen on the planet found above the gigantic storm
Space
Giant Mountains on Venus May Help Explain Bizarre Clouds
4,500-meter range pushes watery clouds upward in the strange “Fountain of Aphrodite” phenomenon
Space
Dark Matter Stays Dark
The most sensitive search yet for the mystery substance draws a blank after 20 months
Space
2 Newfound Alien Planets May Be Capable of Supporting Life
One is likely 10 percent warmer than Earth, the other 6 percent cooler
Space
SpaceX Lands Another Rocket
Company racks up its 5th rocket landing in a cargo launch to the Space Station
Space
How to See This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower
Look up into a dark sky in mid-August to see more than 150 meteors per hour
Space
Astronomers Spot First-Ever “Snow Line” around Newborn Star
The images of water frost forming around the young star V883 Orionis offer new insights into planet formation
Space
Juno Spacecraft Captures First Photo from Jupiter Orbit
Image takes in the Great Red Spot, cloud belts and three big moons
Space
New Dwarf Planet Found Far beyond Pluto
The newfound icy world may be roughly 700 kilometers in size, and orbits the sun once every 700 years
Math
New Equation Tallies Odds of Life Beginning
Creators factor in “origin-of-life” events and available building blocks
Space
First Water Clouds Reported outside the Solar System
Signs seen on brown dwarf, an object bigger than a planet and smaller than a star
