May 2, 2016 High school student discovers alien planet An English high school student has become perhaps the youngest person ever to discover an alien planet.
May 2, 2016 Eerie comet landscape revealed by Rosetta spacecraft photos A deluge of newly released photos from the Rosetta mission reveals the haunting alien landscape on the surface of a comet as it orbits the sun.
May 2, 2016 Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane spotted by amateur astronomers A global team of vigilant satellite watchers has caught the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane on camera as the craft circles Earth on its fourth mysterious mission.
May 2, 2016 Ceres’ bright spots still shrouded in mystery The mysterious spots on Ceres shine brightly in NASA’s latest images of the dwarf planet.
May 2, 2016 Strange 'nasty' star may be spawned by cosmic cannibalism An ongoing act of cosmic cannibalism may be responsible for the strange appearance and unprecedented behavior of a gigantic star nicknamed "Nasty 1," a new study reports.
May 2, 2016 Strange signal from space may solve one of science's greatest mysteries A clue to one of the biggest questions in cosmology — why regular matter, rather than antimatter, survived to fill the universe — may have been found in data from a NASA space telescope.
May 2, 2016 Rare quasar quartet is the first of its kind ever seen A giant nebula in the early universe hits the jackpot when it comes to rare, bright objects known as quasars, boasting four within surprisingly close proximity to one another.
May 2, 2016 Ocean on Saturn moon Enceladus may have potential energy source to support life Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is looking better and better as a potential abode for alien life.
May 2, 2016 How studying Saturn moon Titan could unlock secrets of alien planets With nearly 2,000 confirmed planets now known beyond our solar system, astronomers are attempting to identify the atmospheresof these distant bodies to determine if they could possibly host life.
May 2, 2016 Mars life search: Iron-rich rocks could be key A robotic mission's search for life on Mars may seem worlds away from human scientists wandering around hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.