Football-Size Meteorite May Have Landed in an Indian Rice Field By Yasemin Saplakoglu The strange magnetic rock was the size of a football.
A Tale of Two Apollo 'Goodwill' Moon Rocks: One a Marvel, the Other Missing By Elizabeth Howell Canada has two “goodwill” moon rocks with interesting tales for historians: the Apollo 17 sample is back on display in Ottawa, while the location of the Apollo 11 rock remains unknown.
How Astronomers Missed the Massive Asteroid That Just Whizzed Past Earth By Yasemin Saplakoglu A large asteroid just whizzed past our planet — and astronomers weren't expecting it.
Even Satellites Can See Europe's Sweltering Heat Wave By Elizabeth Howell An image of Europe pulsing red shows the effects of a heat wave sweeping across the continent again in July, following extreme temperatures in June.
This Newfound Alien Planet Has 3 Suns By Meghan Bartels Astronomers think they've spotted a planet with three suns on its horizon — but that still isn't the most interesting thing about the world's skies.
Dark Matter Hasn't Killed Anybody Yet — and That Tells Us Something By Mike Wall Nobody has stumbled into an emergency room with an inexplicable lightsaber wound, as far as we know — and that tells us something about dark matter, a new study suggests.
50 Years After Apollo, India Is Carrying a NASA Laser Reflector to the Moon (And It's Only the Start) By Chelsea Gohd Apollo astronauts left reflector experiments on the moon, and now, new and improved retroreflectors are being sent to the lunar surface.
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Small Galaxies with Monster Black Holes By Paul Sutter The discovery may reveal a crucial link between the evolution of black holes and galaxies.
Mysteries of the Moon: What We Still Don't Know After Apollo By Passant Rabie The Apollo missions helped us solve many of the moon's mysteries, but many questions were left unanswered — and even more arose as a result of the samples the astronauts brought back.
NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Finds 21 New Worlds in 1st Year By Meghan Bartels NASA's TESS mission was designed to hunt alien planets, but it's done more than that in its first year at work, as a new NASA video highlights.
NASA Fed Apollo 11 Moon Rocks to Cockroaches (And Then Things Got Even Weirder) By Meghan Bartels It's too weird to make up: NASA fed some of its precious Apollo 11 lunar samples to cockroaches. And dumped it in fishbowls. And injected mice with it. No, really.
Used SpaceX Rocket and Dragon Launching NASA Cargo Into Space Thursday: Watch Live By Mike Wall SpaceX is launching a cargo mission to the International Space Station Thursday evening (July 25), and you can watch the action live.
Volcano Erupts in Stunning Images Captured by Russian Satellite By Chelsea Gohd A Russian satellite has captured a striking image of a volcano erupting in Peru.
Einstein Was Right (Again)! General Relativity Passes Another Test By Charles Q. Choi This one involved the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
Marsquakes Come in Multiple Flavors. Here's What We Know (Video) By Mike Wall There are at least two different types of marsquakes, new research suggests.
4 Mars Missions Are One Year Away from Launching to the Red Planet in July 2020 By Mike Wall The next launch window for Mars missions opens next summer, and four big-ticket missions aim to take full advantage.
Earth Is Littered with Mysterious Space-Cones, and Now We Know Why By Rafi Letzter A peculiar atmospheric process is sculpting meteorites into surprising shapes as they fall.
A Jumbo-Jet-Size Asteroid Just Zipped Safely by Earth By Passant Rabie This massive asteroid was 222,160 miles (357,500 kilometers) from Earth.
Scientists Spot Two Dead Stars Locked in a Dizzying Dance By Chelsea Gohd Two white dwarfs, "dead" stars like the sun, were observed orbiting rapidly around one another in the night sky.
Water on the Moon May Be Easier to Reach Thanks to Meteorite Strikes, Solar Wind By Passant Rabie New research provides clues as to how the water may have escaped its icy grave and splattered across the lunar surface.
