Look Out Below! Japan's Hayabusa2 Drops Target Markers on Asteroid Ryugu By Meghan Bartels Japan's asteroid-exploring spacecraft has practiced its last task before heading home — and it made a nifty image as well.
'Alien Megastructure' Star May Not Be So Special After All By Charles Q. Choi More mysteriously dimming stars have been spotted.
China's Lunar Rover Scopes Out Weird Substance on Far Side of the Moon (Photos) By Andrew Jones China's lunar exploration program has released images that give us a glimpse of the mysterious material discovered on the far side of the moon.
Students Worldwide Mobilize for Climate Action By Mindy Weisberger On Friday (Sept. 20), students around the world will walk out of their classrooms and gather in coordinated protests to highlight the global crisis created by climate change.
Time Is Running Out for India to Save Its Silent Moon Lander By Meghan Bartels Even as its orbiter settles into work, India's hopes of resurrecting its moon lander are quickly evaporating as the country marks two weeks from its attempt to softly touch down on the lunar surface.
Pictures from Space! Our Image of the Day By SPACE.com Staff City lights around the Nile River and its delta sparkle by night in this stunning view from the International Space Station.
Asteroid Dust Triggered an Explosion of Life on Earth 466 Million Years Ago By Meghan Bartels Consider the possibility that an asteroid may have transformed the picture of life on Earth — but forget the dinosaurs and the massive crater, and rewind an extra 400 million years.
Hermes Regolith Experiment in Space Takes Aim at Moon Dirt and Asteroid Landings By Kasandra Brabaw By 2024, NASA plans to land the next two people on the moon, including the first woman who will ever walk on the lunar surface.
NASA Moon Orbiter Fails to Spot India's Lunar Lander: Report By Leonard David NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has reportedly failed to spot India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander, which apparently crashed during its Sept. 6 touchdown attempt.
NASA's Airborne Observatory SOFIA Takes Flight Over Europe Today By Doris Elin Urrutia Today (Sept. 18) a unique airborne space observatory will perform its first scientific flight over Europe.
'Snow-Cannon' on Enceladus May Make Other Moons Shine By Chelsea Gohd A new study suggests that Enceladus' geysers act as a 'snow-cannon,' making nearby moons snowy and reflective.
It's Gonna Blow! Giant Volcano on Jupiter Moon Could Erupt Any Day By Mike Wall A giant volcano on the Jupiter moon Io should erupt any day now, a new study suggests.
NASA's Juno Mission Checks Out Eclipse on Jupiter By Meghan Bartels Don't panic, this isn't a massive hole on Jupiter. All is well on our largest neighbor; NASA's Juno spacecraft just managed to spot the shadow of its moon Io passing over its marbled clouds.
Why Is It So Hard to Land on the Moon? By Adam Mann Despite the fact that humans landed on the moon many times during the Apollo missions half a century ago, doing so remains a tough business.
Astronomers Get the Goods on Jupiter-Smacking Space Rock By Mike Wall The space rock that whacked Jupiter last month has lost its air of mystery.
Large Magellanic Cloud Shines in 'Unprecedented' New Telescope Imagery By Doris Elin Urrutia Beyond the border of our Milky Way lies a fascinating satellite galaxy that takes center stage in new imagery.
Sand Dunes Snake Near Mars' North Pole (Photo) By Mike Wall Rippling, dark-flecked sand dunes near Mars' north pole look like melting chocolate-chip ice cream in an image captured by the European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter.
NASA Probe to Fly Over India's Moon-Landing Site Tuesday By Mike Wall We could learn more about the fate of India's first moon lander soon.
Astronomers Detect the Most Massive Neutron Star Yet By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers have discovered the most massive example yet of the dead stars known as neutron stars, one almost too massive to exist, a new study finds.
