March 28, 2019 Are we really in a new space race with China and Russia? How do you make an ambitious goal and a speedy timeline seem worth tackling among a busy slate of jostling existential crises?
March 28, 2019 NASA finds 'butterfly' in space To coincide with the arrival of spring and insects buzzing, flying and crawling everywhere, NASA has found a butterfly in the last place you'd think – space.
March 28, 2019 NASA Moon orbiter tracks Chinese rover on lunar farside, photos show NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) continues to monitor the whereabouts and wanderings of China's Yutu 2 rover on the moon's far side.
March 28, 2019 Universe quickly spawned stars after Big Bang, ancient galaxy shows Observations of the most distant galaxy ever identified revealed traces of oxygen from at least one previous generation of stars, a sign that star formation got off to an early start.
March 27, 2019 NASA Space Challenger widow’s home goes up in flames in Texas: report Cheryl McNair, the widow of NASA Space Challenger astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair, was rescued, along with her cat and some space memorabilia, from a fire at in her home in El Lago, TX early Wednesday morning.
March 27, 2019 Hubble Telescope reveals what 200 billion stars look like Two incredible new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show galaxies in all their shining glory.
March 27, 2019 Ancient asteroid strikes on Mars may have 'produced key ingredients for life' Scientists have looked far and wide for life in the universe, but a new study suggests that ancient asteroid impacts may have "produced key ingredients for life" right next door — Mars.
March 27, 2019 Are aliens ignoring us? Maybe we're already their captives in a 'calactic zoo' Why hasn't Earth received any messages from extraterrestrials yet?
March 27, 2019 India becomes 4th country to use anti-satellite weapon in demonstration of its 'space power' India says it has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon in an unexpected announcement juIndia became the fourth country to successfully use an anti-satellite weapon after it shot down one of its low earth orbit satellites Wednesday - an act which Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed as the country’s first demonstration of its “space power.”st weeks before a general election.
March 26, 2019 Boeing 737 Max: In simulation, pilots had 40 seconds to fix error that could doom plane, report says In flight simulations designed to recreate the problems from a doomed Boeing 737 Max airliner, pilots found that they had less than 40 seconds to override a controversial automated system and prevent a crash, according to the New York Times.