NASA Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Survives Termination Reviewspace.com WASHINGTON — The five-week partial government shutdown earlier this year that delayed elements of other NASA missions may have provided a reprieve of …
Captain Marvel 'Captain Marvel' Nears $1 Billion, More Comic Milestones Within Reachspace.com Updated April 1, 2019: "Captain Marvel" officially took in $20.7 million at the domestic box office over the weekend, 40 percent off of last weekend …
Science Fiction The Spice Must Flow: New 'Dune' Movie Starts Shootingspace.com A post shared by Greig Fraser ACS, ASC (@greigfraser_dp) A photo posted by on on Mar 18, 2019 at 12:37pm PDT Principal photography has begun on the …
NASA Chief Says 'Nothing Off the Table' as Agency Develops New Moon Planspace.com POTOMAC, Md. — Insisting that all options are under consideration, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said April 1 that he hopes to develop an …
Northeast Astronomy Forum 2019 Gathers Space Fans This Weekendspace.com Space fans will gather this weekend in Suffern, New York, to celebrate astronomy at the Northeast Astronomy Forum — and if you'll be attending, be …
Christina Koch All-Female Spacewalk Was Cancelled on 'My Recommendation,' Astronaut Anne McClain Saysspace.com Astronaut Anne McClain is defending NASA's decision to scrap the first all-female spacewalk over a lack of appropriately sized spacesuits. "That was …
NASA Mars May Have Lots of Water Deep Undergroundspace.com The water thought to be responsible for Mars' intriguing seasonal dark streaks may be coming from very deep underground, a new study suggests. These …
Particles Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn't a Particle at Allspace.com It sounds like the start of a very bad physics riddle: I'm a particle that really isn't; I vanish before I can even be detected, yet can be seen. I …
'Groundbreaking Result' Coming from Black-Hole Hunting Event Horizon Telescope Next Weekspace.com We may be about to get an epic and unprecedented look at a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, an international effort that aims to …
Flowers California's 'Superbloom' of Wildflowers Looks Spectacular from Space!space.com NASA's Landsat 8 satellite saw "an explosion" of wildflowers that covered green areas of deserts in Southern California, and DigitalGlobe satellites …
SpaceIL Israeli Moon Lander Tweaks Orbit to Prep for Thursday Lunar Arrivalspace.com Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has almost made it to the moon. The 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet fired its engines for a little over a minute …
India India Follows Anti-Satellite Missile Test with 29-Satellite Launchspace.com It's been a busy week in space for India. Just days after the country's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) performed an …
See Venus Shine with the Crescent Moon Tuesday Morning!space.com Venus will meet up with a slender, crescent moon on Tuesday (April 2), and you can catch the celestial pair together in the predawn sky. The …
Science (India) India's Anti-Satellite Test Created Dangerous Debris, NASA Chief Saysspace.com NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said today (April 1) that India's recent anti-satellite test created 60 pieces of orbital debris big enough to …
Brilliant Green Fireball Lights Up Florida Skyspace.com A bright green fireball east of Tallahassee, Florida sparked nearly 250 witness reports for the American Meteor Society across several states. The …
Anne McClain Astronaut Anne McClain Loves Aidy Bryant's Take on Her on 'Saturday Night Live'space.com Astronaut Anne McClain may have missed out on a historic all-female spacewalk last week, when spacesuit-sizing issues prevented her from working with …
Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Unveils 'Vector' Fragrance for that Space-y Smellspace.com The folks at aerospace giant Lockheed Martin do a lot of things in space. They launch rockets. They build Mars landers. And now, they're bottling the …
Magnetism Surprise! Sun's Magnetic Field Is Stronger Than We Thoughtspace.com Studies of a solar flare revealed something unexpected about the sun: its magnetic field is even stronger than scientists predicted. Measuring that …
China China's Chang'e 4 Moon Lander, Yutu 2 Rover Awake for 4th Lunar Workdayspace.com It's back to work for China's moon mission: The Chang'e 4 lander and the Yutu 2 rover both awoke over the weekend to start their fourth lunar …
Enceladus Why Does Enceladus Have an Underground Ocean? New Research Probes Differences Between Saturn's Moonsspace.com New answers for mysteries concerning Saturn's moons could shed light on whether one, Enceladus, could support life, researchers say. For example, …
Methane There Is Definitely Methane on Mars, Scientists Say. But Is It a Sign of Life?space.com We may be one step closer to cracking the Mars methane mystery. NASA's Curiosity rover mission recently determined that background levels of methane …
Jupiter Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa? Lander Design Team Hopes to Be the Ones to Find Itspace.com There's a stark difference between knowing that the conditions for life exist and actually finding some form of life, and that difference is at the …
Spacecraft Here's What a Spacecraft Orbiting Uranus Could Learnspace.com No spacecraft has gotten a close look at Uranus in more than three decades — but scientists know they want to go back, if they can design the right …
Exoplanets Violent Planetwide Storm Spotted Above Distant Exoplanetspace.com New data from the European Southern Observatory shows raging storm clouds of iron and silicates swirling above a distant exoplanet. The exoplanet, …
Quarks Dash of Meson, Pinch of Baryon: Scientists Find Recipe for Ultrarare Pentaquarksspace.com More than three years after discovering a never-before-seen subatomic particle, physicists now know how these particles — called pentaquarks — are …
NASA NASA's WFIRST Space Telescope Faces Funding Crunchspace.com WASHINGTON — A NASA astrophysics mission that avoided cancellation last year could still face budget problems if it evades another termination threat …
Star Wars First 'Star Wars: Episode IX' Poster Leaked ... With New Characters Revealed?space.com An image purported to be a "Star Wars: Episode IX" poster is floating around on the interwebs. Our sister site GamesRadar+ picked is up here: Star Wars …
SpaceX Germany Begins Reusability Study to Capture Rockets in Midair and Land Them With a Planespace.com WASHINGTON — The Germany space agency DLR is beginning a study this month on a reusable launcher concept that would use a winged first-stage booster …
NASA NASA's Piggyback Experiment on Israeli Moon Lander Could Aid Future Lunar Touchdownsspace.com An Israeli spacecraft is headed for the moon, slated to touch down April 11 within Mare Serenitatis on the northern hemisphere of the moon's near …
Triton Next Stop, Triton? Here's Two Wild Ideas to Explore Neptune's Weirdest Moonspace.com Neptune's moon Triton is one of the strangest worlds in the solar system — and that's why scientists are exploring mission concepts that could give …
