Five ways artificial intelligence can help space exploration By Deep Bandivadekar, Audrey Berquand Artificial intelligence has been making waves in recent years, enabling us to solve problems faster than traditional computing could ever allow.
These 3 spinning brown dwarfs are the fastest 'failed stars' ever seen By Kasandra Brabaw A new astronomy paper theorizes that three brown dwarfs may be reaching a cosmic speed limit, beyond which they would break apart.
NASA's New Horizons probe reaches rare distance, looks out to farthest Voyager By Robert Z. Pearlman Fifteen years after launching and six years after becoming the first probe to fly by Pluto, NASA's New Horizons is reaching 50 AU, a marker that has been passed only by four other spacecraft.
Scientists paint best yet portrait of closest known fast radio burst By Meghan Bartels Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
Russia is going back to the moon this year By Meghan Bartels Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon.
Galaxies, the cosmic cities of the universe, explained by astrophysicist By Paul Sutter Galaxies are glittering cities, massive metropolises full of stars, dust, gas, black holes, magnetic fields, cosmic rays, dark matter and more.
Scientists get more great looks at the 1st black hole ever photographed By Mike Wall The supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 is coming into sharper and sharper focus.
Curious Kids: Could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space? By Culum Brown Octopuses are famous for their alien-like abilities, from regrowing damaged arms to changing their skin color and texture.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins its farewell tour of near-Earth asteroid Bennu By Doris Elin Urrutia A spacecraft carrying pristine asteroid samples and 4,000 megabytes of data recently flew away from the space rock Bennu.
Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago By Stephanie Pappas The permanent oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later than expected.
Japanese ispace lander to carry UAE moon rover to lunar surface in 2022 By Mike Wall The United Arab Emirates' robotic Rashid moon rover will be delivered to the lunar surface in 2022 by HAKUTO-R, a lander built by the Japanese company ispace.
Did lightning help spark life on Earth? By Chelsea Gohd Could lightning strikes have helped to spark life on planet Earth billions of years ago?
Weird 'blue' dunes speckle the surface of Mars in NASA photo By Chelsea Gohd What might look like a scene from a science fiction film is actually a real-life image of dunes speckling the surface of Mars.
Alien hunters should search for artifacts on the moon, study suggests By Charles Q. Choi The famous equation used to search for alien civilizations has now inspired a new formula to hunt for alien artifacts within our solar system.
Astronomers detect a bright-blue bridge of stars, and it's about to blow By Ben Turner Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.
Lego launching NASA/ESA Ulysses solar probe as VIP reward set By Robert Z. Pearlman Lego has a new mission for its recently launched space shuttle Discovery set, and you can get it for free — if you are a VIP.
Fireball meteor burns up over South Florida By Nicoletta Lanese The meteor was spotted at about 10 p.m. local time on April 12.
The water on Mars didn't run dry all at once, study finds By Charles Q. Choi Mars did not dry up all at once, but fluctuated between dry spells and wetter times, a new study finds.
'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology By Adam Mann A team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity won't fly until next week at the earliest By Mike Wall The team will modify and reinstall Ingenuity's flight-control software.
