Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first… Read More
Killed by a meteorite? Indian bus driver V. Kamaraj’s death may be a first Death by meteorite is a common theme in science-fiction movies, but in real life, the chances of being done in by a falling… Read More
Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good news It’s a question that goes back decades: If other civilizations have arisen beyond Earth over the course of billions of… Read More
Apollo 14 moonwalker (and UFO seeker) Edgar Mitchell dies at the age of 85 Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has died at the age of 85 after a months-long illness, according to reports that emerged… Read More
Boeing-built GPS satellite goes into orbit The last GPS Block IIF satellite built by the Boeing Co. was sent into orbit for the U.S. Air Force today,… Read More
Weird! New Horizons probe spots islands of water ice floating in nitrogen slush There’s plenty of evidence that Pluto is a frozen water world, with mountains of ice that rise more than 10,000… Read More
NASA finishes huge mirror for James Webb Space Telescope, due for 2018 liftoff NASA has put the 18th and final piece of the puzzle into place for the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope’s… Read More
Abort, retry, fail? Astronaut pokes fun at Windows XP during space training in Russia Moscow, we have a problem: Russia’s cosmonaut training center in Star City might need to upgrade its Soyuz spacecraft simulators… Read More
NASA puts Pluto and its heart on a valentine Say it with Pluto? After NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft spotted a heart-shaped region on Pluto, you had to know it… Read More
Tiny nation, big ambitions: Luxembourg wants to be the NASA of asteroid mining Luxembourg intends to one day become a major hub for deep-space commercial operations. The country announced Wednesday it plans to… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future… Read More
NASA’s giant rocket will carry solar sail, a lunar flashlight and more mini-satellites NASA says it’ll send 13 miniaturized satellites – including a pop-up solar sail and a “lunar flashlight” – beyond Earth… Read More
‘The Age of Aerospace’: Boeing sponsors TV series looking back at 100 years of high-flying history This year marks the Boeing Co’s 100th anniversary, and the company is using the centennial as an opportunity not only… Read More
Check out real X-Files from the CIA and FBI The FBI denies having a secret collection of X-Files like the ones that Mulder and Scully are investigating in “The X-Files”… Read More
UW researchers trace a connection between the moon and the rain When the moon is high in the sky, its gravitational pull warps the atmosphere enough to reduce rainfall ever so… Read More
Map reveals that there’s more water ice on Pluto A color-coded map from NASA’s New Horizons mission shows where Pluto’s frozen water is concentrated, just in case we need… Read More
SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025 SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four… Read More
30 years after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the loss and legacies linger It’s been 30 years since the loss of the shuttle Challenger and its crew on Jan. 28, 1986, but its impact is… Read More
NASA’s backing fuels more interest in SNC’s Dream Chaser mini-space shuttle NASA’s decision to use Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space… Read More
Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More
SpaceX shows how its Dragon 2 spaceship hovers A newly released video shows SpaceX’s Dragon 2 capsule pulling off a valuable trick: firing its thrusters to hover above a landing… Read More
The return of ‘The X-Files’ brings real-life UFO sleuths out of the shadows UFOs are back in style, thanks in part to the return of “The X-Files” to television this weekend, almost 14 years… Read More
Nudge ’em or nuke ’em: Asteroid defense plans take shape in U.S. and Russia What should the world do about the potential threat of a catastrophic asteroid collision? This month NASA established the Planetary… Read More
‘Planet Nine’? Astronomers boost the case for a large, unseen Planet X For decades, astronomers have gone back and forth over whether a “Planet X” exists on the edge of our solar… Read More
Stephen Hawking: Mad scientists could kill us all – that’s why we need space colonies British physicist Stephen Hawking says we need to colonize other worlds because humanity will almost certainly face a disaster on… Read More
Ride a balloon to space? $15M deal gives a lift to World View spaceport in Tucson World View Enterprises’ plan to send tourists from Spaceport Tucson into the stratosphere in a balloon-borne capsule won a $15… Read More
SpaceX rocket launches satellite, but tips over during sea landing attempt Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today –… Read More
‘Alien megastructure’ revisited: Oddly dimming star poses new mystery He’s not saying it’s aliens – but an astronomer has raised new questions about KIC 8462852, the strange star that stirred… Read More
Not again! Astronaut’s leaky helmet forces early end to spacewalk at space station Today’s spacewalk at the International Space Station was called off early when NASA astronaut Tim Kopra reported a small bubble of… Read More
