Crew Dragon Parachutes Failed in Recent Test By Jeff Foust A test of parachutes for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft did not go as planned last month, NASA and SpaceX confirmed May 8.
North Korea, US Fire Missiles in Early-Morning Tests (Video) By Mike Wall North Korea fired off two short-range missiles in quick succession early this morning (May 9), and the United States followed suit with a test of its own just minutes later.
Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms By Rafi Letzter Antimatter is made of waves, and physicists have proven it at the level of a single antimatter particle.
Off the Coast of Portugal, the Earth's Crust Might Be Peeling in Two By Yasemin Saplakoglu It might explain the massive earthquake of 1755 which destroyed the city of Lisbon.
Farewell, Chewbacca: Astronaut Honors Peter Mayhew of 'Star Wars' in Space By Tariq Malik "Star Wars" fans on Earth aren't the ones mourning the death of actor Peter Mayhew, who portrayed the iconic Wookie Chewbacca.
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Making Big Spaceflight Announcement Today By Mike Wall The world's richest man will reveal some news today (May 9) about the final frontier.
Cost of 2024 Moon Landing Is Still a Mystery By Mike Wall We'll have to wait a little longer to get an idea of how much it'll cost to put astronauts on the moon by 2024.
Could There Be Life on Mars Today? By Mike Wall The search for life on Mars shouldn't focus exclusively on the distant past, some researchers say.
Waves Washing Through Blue 'Supergiant' Stars Change Their Brightness By Elizabeth Howell A new study shows that blue supergiants — a rare type of supermassive star — change brightness because of waves breaking on their surfaces.
SpaceX to Launch 'Dozens' of Starlink Satellites Next Week, More to Follow By Caleb Henry SpaceX's first launch to carry a large number of Starlink broadband satellites is scheduled for May 15, according to a company executive.
The Aral Sea Drying Out. This NASA Time-Lapse Video Shows It from Space By Elizabeth Howell The ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea ecosystem, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, shows up clearly in a video provided by NASA.
Whirling 'Collapsar' Stars Gave Universe Its Gold By Charles Q. Choi Most of the universe's gold, uranium and other heavy elements are generated from rapidly whirling collapsing stars, a new study finds.
Ancient Neutron-Star Crash Made Enough Gold and Uranium to Fill Earth's Oceans By Charles Q. Choi Enough gold, uranium and other heavy elements about equal in mass to all of Earth's oceans likely came to the solar system from the collision of two neutron stars billions of years ago.
With New Gravitational-Wave Detectors, More Cosmic Mysteries Will Be Solved By Charles Q. Choi Upcoming gravitational-wave observatories both on Earth and in space could soon help solve some of the greatest mysteries in science.
Watch Egyptian Desert Transform As Crop Circles Sprout in Time-Lapse Video By Elizabeth Howell A new time-lapse video shows hundreds of dark crop circles springing up in the Egyptian desert. It uses a series of satellite images dating back to 1998.
NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' to Help Explore Other Worlds By Elizabeth Howell Think robots are all square corners and rigid parts? Think again. Two interns at NASA are part of a larger group working on "soft robots" that could be used for exploring worlds beyond Earth.
InSight Mars Lander Snaps Dusty Selfie on Red Planet (Photo) By Mike Wall NASA's InSight Mars lander has taken its second selfie, and the newly released photo shows just how much has changed for the spacecraft over the past few months.
Even If We Can Stop a Dangerous Asteroid, Being Human May Mean We Don't Succeed By Meghan Bartels To err is human, and that saying doesn't magically become moot just because the stakes are high.
Secretive Startup SpinLaunch Breaks Ground on Satellite-Flinging Test Flight Facility By Mike Wall SpinLaunch has begun building the facility where it will test out its radical new satellite-lofting strategy.
Algae 'Bioreactor' on Space Station Could Make Oxygen, Food for Astronauts By Samantha Mathewson Astronauts on the International Space Station will begin testing an innovative algae-powered bioreactor to assess its feasibility for future long-duration space missions.
