Astronauts Wont make the 1st All Female Spacewalk After All, NASA Says By Hanneke Weitering The first all-female spacewalk in history won't be happening this week after all due to a last-minute crew swap, NASA announced today (March 25).
Birth of 'Great Dark Spot' Storm on Neptune Seen for 1st Time (Photo) By Mike Wall For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of Neptune's enormous 'Great Dark Spot' storms.
Northrop Grumman Names Spaceship for Fallen Apollo 1 Astronaut By Robert Z. Pearlman Northrop Grumman has named its next space station resupply ship after an astronaut who died in NASA's pursuit of the first moon landing.
Chemically, Earth Is Basically a Less Volatile Version of the Sun By Mindy Weisberger The elemental composition of Earth and sun are unexpectedly similar.
National Space Council Seeks Urgency in NASA Exploration Plans By Jeff Foust The National Space Council will likely press NASA at its upcoming meeting to speed up its plans to return humans to the moon.
Universe Quickly Spawned Stars After Big Bang, Ancient Galaxy Shows By Nola Taylor Redd Observations of the most distant galaxy ever identified revealed traces of oxygen from at least one previous generation of stars, a sign that star formation got off to an early start.
Space Calendar 2019: Launches, Sky Events & More By Hanneke Weitering Here's a guide to the major astronomical events of the next year, as well as space launches and milestones for spacecraft already in travel.
Image of the Day By Hanneke Weitering Colorful cosmic "fireworks" decorate the night sky over the La Silla observatory in Chile in this gorgeous image by the European Southern Observatory's resident astrophotographer Petr Horálek.
Physicists Think They've Figured Out the Most Extreme Chemical Factories in the Universe By Rafi Letzter Our world is full of chemicals that shouldn't exist. New research could explain why they exist anyway.
The Universe's Dark Secret: Where Did All the Antimatter Go? By Paul Sutter So there's this stuff called "antimatter." But a weirdly small amount of it.
Get Ready for Milky Way Season with These Galactic Night-Sky Photos By Hanneke Weitering The Milky Way stretches across the early-morning sky in these glistening views captured by astrophotographer Sérgio Conceição in Campinho, Portugal.
NASA Needs Fresh Moon Rocks. This Sample-Return Mission Could Get Them. By Meghan Bartels Thanks to the Apollo missions, scientists have their hands on hundreds of pounds of lunar rock right here on Earth. But because of a twist of fate, it isn't quite enough to solve a major puzzle.
Rocket Lab Scrubs Launch of Experimental DARPA Military Satellite By Tariq Malik The small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab called off the planned flight of an experimental satellite for the U.S. military Sunday (March 24) due to a video transmitter issue.
Rocket Lab to Launch R3D2 Prototype for DARPA! Here's How to Watch. By Tariq Malik Rocket Lab is counting down to its first flight of 2019, an experimental satellite for the U.S. military, and you can watch it live online today (March 24).
Space Webcasts: Rocket Lab Scrubs Launch of DARPA Satellite By SPACE.com Staff A Rocket Lab Electron booster will launch the military R3D2 space antenna prototype satellite today, March 24, from New Zealand.
On This Day in Space! March 25, 1655: Christiaan Huygens Discovers Saturn's Moon Titan By Hanneke Weitering On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space Video Series.
The 'True' Neutrino Has Hidden from Physicists for Decades. Could They Find It in Antarctica? By Paul Sutter Neutrinos are the changelings of the subatomic world, but physicists are getting closer to pinning down the particles' true identities.
Truly Spooky: How Ghostly Quantum Particles Fly Through Barriers Almost Instantly By Mindy Weisberger Scientists recently unraveled a physics puzzle that has stymied experts since the dawn of quantum mechanics.
'Artificial Gravity' Bed-Rest Study to Track Space Travel's Effects on Human Body By Mike Wall Some brave people will soon lie down for science — and they won't get up for a long, long time.
How NASA Scrambled to Add Science Experiments to Israeli, Indian Moon Probes By Meghan Bartels NASA science instruments are flying to the moon aboard two international lunar missions, according to agency officials.
