March 12, 2019 NASA is finally funding a Mars sample return mission, but details are slim President Donald Trump's NASA budget request for the 2020 fiscal year includes funding for a Mars sample return mission that could launch as soon as 2026, the space agency's chief Jim Bridenstine said today (March 11).
March 12, 2019 Ice samples reveal a massive Sun storm hit Earth in ancient times...and it could happen again A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds.
March 12, 2019 How much water may be tucked away in nearby asteroids? Would-be explorers have high hopes that caches of water scattered throughout the solar system will fuel future rockets .
March 11, 2019 Trump's 2020 NASA budget would cancel Space Telescope, Earth science missions (again) The Trump administration's federal budget request for 2020 proposes the cancellation of three NASA science missions: the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) and two Earth science missions.
March 11, 2019 Cape Canaveral area set for major economic boost as America ramps up space program Florida's Space Coast has benefited from a big infusion of private companies racing to go to outer space.
March 11, 2019 Evidence for mysterious Planet Nine continues to mount, could be ' solar system's missing link' Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, as two new studies offer support of its existence, even if NASA and space researchers have yet to find it.
March 11, 2019 How a distant alien world was saved from an interstellar exile A distant alien world that was potentially on its way into exile in interstellar space was rescued by the gravitational pull of a passing pair of stars, a new study argues.
March 8, 2019 NASA accurately calculates Milky Way's weight using Gaia, Hubble telescopes Scientists have finally been able to accurately calculate the weight of the Milky Way, using the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia observatory.
March 8, 2019 Newfound 'FarFarOut' is most distant solar system body ever seen The solar system has a new distance champ.
March 8, 2019 'Living fossil' from the dawn of the universe discovered in deep space Researchers have discovered a "living fossil" in deep space, a " bizarre, solitary ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG)" known as DGSAT I.