April 18, 2019 Full ‘Pink moon’: What to know about April's full moon rising Easter weekend This Easter weekend will mark the rising of the full, so-called “pink moon,” the fourth full moon of the year.
April 17, 2019 The hunt is on for the Lunar Library that crashed on the Moon aboard doomed Beresheet probe When Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the Moon last week it was carrying the Lunar Library – a 30-million page archive of humanity’s achievements. The team that compiled the library is confident that it survived the crash and wants to locate it on the lunar surface.
April 17, 2019 NASA mission finds its first Earth-sized alien planet Seven months after finding its first exoplanet, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found its first Earth-sized planet, as well as a "warm sub-Neptune-sized world."
April 17, 2019 We could soon watch a black hole in action, gobbling up matter in real time DENVER — Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever image of a black hole's shadow cast against the hot gas of its accretion disk.
April 17, 2019 The Moon loses water when meteoroids smack the lunar surface Meteoroid impacts regularly liberate puffs of water vapor from the moon, suggesting that minuscule amounts of water may lurk just under the entire lunar surface, a new study finds.
April 17, 2019 Mysterious interstellar meteor may have slammed into Earth in 2014 A new study suggests that the mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua isn't alone – and the other one disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere five years ago.
April 17, 2019 Physicists think you could be rescued from a black hole — but don't risk it DENVER — Researchers have developed a new, unspeakably dangerous, and incredibly slow method of crossing the universe.
April 17, 2019 SEE IT: Virginia man spots stunning ‘meteor’ outside of Fairfax Steve Chazin, of Fairfax, Virginia, captured video on his dash camera of what he believes to be a stunning meteor swish by during his drive back from Washington Dulles International Airport Tuesday evening.
April 16, 2019 NASA scientists send mice into space to study effects of microgravity on humans NASA scientists recently sent mice flying into space to better understand the effects of microgravity on the human body.
April 16, 2019 3 million-year-old comet piece found inside a meteorite, could contain building blocks of life A piece of a comet, thought to be between 3 and 3.5 million-years-old, has been found inside a meteorite and it could potentially contain the building blocks for life, according to a new study.