The odds of a NASA, US military satellite crash above Pittsburgh have gone up. (They're still low.) By Mike Wall The odds of a space-junk crash Wednesday evening (Jan.29) aren't as slim as we had thought, it turns out.
'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon By Elizabeth Howell Could robots help power NASA's quest to return humans to the moon?
Voyager 2 just missed a spin in interstellar space. But it should be fine, NASA says. By Meghan Bartels NASA's venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft is recovering from a glitch, but engineers are confident that the probe will be back to normal science operations soon, the agency said.
'Vampire' star sparks brilliant 'super-outburst' while gorging on its neighbor By Doris Elin Urrutia This rare finding was made by "accident," according to the research team that found the super-outburst.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may miss March 2021 launch, GAO report says By Meghan Bartels NASA's much-delayed space telescope just got a scathing report card from a government agency.
NASA is turning off the Spitzer Space Telescope. Its infrared eye changed our view of the universe. By Meghan Bartels NASA is bidding goodbye to a premier space telescope, one that let scientists peer into the dusty corners of the universe.
'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon By Elizabeth Howell Could robots help power NASA's quest to return humans to the moon?
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may miss March 2021 launch, GAO report says By Meghan Bartels NASA's much-delayed space telescope just got a scathing report card from a government agency.
On This Day in Space: Jan. 29, 1989: Phobos 2 enters orbit around Mars By Hanneke Weitering On January 29, 1989, a Soviet space probe named Phobos 2 arrived in orbit around Mars. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!
'Vampire' star sparks brilliant 'super-outburst' while gorging on its neighbor By Doris Elin Urrutia This rare finding was made by "accident," according to the research team that found the super-outburst.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may miss March 2021 launch, GAO report says By Meghan Bartels NASA's much-delayed space telescope just got a scathing report card from a government agency.
To find intelligent alien life, humans may need to start thinking like an extraterrestrial By Adam Mann Anthropologist reveals a potentially big flaw in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
NASA's next Mars rover will get one of these 9 names By Mike Wall NASA has chosen nine finalists in the student naming contest for its next Mars rover, which currently goes by the bland Mars 2020.
Can this new model predict which alien worlds could support life? By Elizabeth Howell It's a tough job to figure out which planets are potentially habitable, because we can only see so much detail in our telescopes.
The 'evening star' Venus swings by the crescent moon today. Here's how to see it. By Hanneke Weitering Tonight (Jan. 28), you can catch the crescent moon make a close approach to Venus in the evening sky.
Space calendar 2020: Rocket launches, sky events, missions & more! By Hanneke Weitering Here's a guide to all the rocket launches and astronomical events in 2020, as well as milestones for space missions, anniversaries and conferences.
Spot Auriga the charioteer (and goat tender) in the winter sky By Joe Rao Auriga is one of those star patterns whose exact origin is a hopeless mix of antique conceptions.
Alien investigation series 'Project Blue Book' shows more weird encounters in Season 2 By Elizabeth Howell "Project Blue Book," the hit television docudrama about the U.S. military's investigations into aliens more than 50 years ago, is back for Season 2.
'The Rentals' release tribute song for astronauts killed in the Challenger shuttle disaster By Chelsea Gohd
Jeri Ryan brings Borg back to 'Star Trek Online' as well as 'Picard' By Elizabeth Howell While Trekkies worldwide exult in the return of Jeri Ryan to "Star Trek: Picard," the actor is also coming back to "Star Trek Online" — a long-running game in the Trek universe.
