These Wisps Around Black Holes Could Reveal How the Cosmic Beasts Eat By Rafi Letzter The international team responsible for the first-ever image of a black hole's shadow already has plans to take a better, more detailed image.
Here's How to Share Your 'Earth Day' Photos with NASA By Elizabeth Howell NASA has a new social media campaign to gear up its audience for Earth Day, an annual event to celebrate our planet – and the importance of protecting the environment – on April 22.
Cosmic Crustacean Makes Great Birthday Card for Hubble's 29th Year (Image) By Doris Elin Salazar On April 18, the European Space Agency released an image featuring the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's birthday coming up next week.
We Could Soon Watch a Black Hole in Action, Gobbling Up Matter in Real Time By Rafi Letzter The huge team behind the Event Horizon Telescope already made news with their first image of a black hole. But they've got bigger ambitions.
April's Lyrid Meteors Peak Early this Week, But the Moon May Interfere By Joe Rao One of the oldest known annual meteor showers, peaking early this week, may unfortunately be hindered by an almost-full moon.
Tiny Mercury May Have a Solid Metallic Core That Rivals Earth's By Meghan Bartels A solid metallic core nearly as large as Earth's might be lurking deep within the solar system's smallest planet.
Make Your Own Gravitational Waves with 'BlackHoles@Home' By Hanneke Weitering Scientists want your help studying black holes — and you can do it from your own home!
China to Launch Ambitious Asteroid-Comet Mission in 2022 By Mike Wall China aims to launch a bold sample-return mission just three years from now, according to the nation's state-run Xinhua news agency.
A House-Size Asteroid Zipped by Earth Today By Hanneke Weitering An asteroid the size of a house gave Earth a close shave today (April 18), passing nearer to our planet than any other space rock will for the rest of this year — that is, as far as we know.
What Is the Eagle Nebula? By Nola Taylor Redd This impressive cloud of cosmic gas and dust is an ancient star nursery.
Astronomers Finally Spot Universe's First Molecule in Distant Nebula By Samantha Mathewson A flying observatory has pinpointed the first type of molecule that formed in the universe after the Big Bang.
Second NASA Astronaut to Spend Nearly a Year in Space — For Science By Meghan Bartels NASA's next long-duration spaceflight mission has already begun, and doctors are excited about what it could teach them.
Stopping an Earth-Bound Asteroid in its Tracks (Op-Ed) By Cathy Plesko, Ph.D. Fortunately, we're getting to the point where we can see potentially hazardous objects coming — and maybe even do something about it.
Boom! Another Neutron-Star Crash Spotted By Mike Wall Astronomers have apparently spotted another epic neutron-star crash — and they didn't need gravitational waves to do it.
Asteroid Hunting Mission Releases 5th Year of Data By Meghan Bartels If the idea of an asteroid slamming into Earth keeps you up at night, spare a thought for a mission called NEOWISE, which reincarnated a former astrophysics spacecraft to hunt for nearby space rocks.
Here's How Scientists Turned the World Into a Telescope (to See a Black Hole) By Meghan Bartels It took eight telescopes across the planet a week to produce the black hole image that stunned the world last week, but it took scientists much longer to teach those instruments to work together.
Did NASA Experiment Survive Israeli Moon Lander's Crash? By Leonard David A NASA piggyback experiment may have survived the April 11 crash of Israel's Beresheet moon lander, experts said.
Physicists Think You Could Be Rescued from a Black Hole — But Don't Risk It By Rafi Letzter Researchers have developed a new, unspeakably dangerous, and incredibly slow method of crossing the universe. It involves wormholes linking special black holes that probably don't exist.
Tiny Robots, Wearable Tech and More Weird Science Will Launch to Space Station Wednesday By Chelsea Gohd Two little robots, wearable tech and more weird science will launch to the International Space Station in a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft.
