September 25, 2017 LA 'UFO' mystery solved The mysterious object in the sky above Los Angles on Saturday night has been identified.
September 19, 2017 Goodbye Cassini: NASA spacecraft makes 'death plunge' into Saturn's atmosphere NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its dramatic ‘death plunge’ into Saturn’s atmosphere Friday, ending an epic 20-year space journey.
September 19, 2017 Time travel isn't possible…or is it? Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center.
September 19, 2017 Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth after record-breaking spaceflight Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance.
September 19, 2017 Artificial intelligence could help us see farther into space than ever before New AI algorithm is 10 million times faster at analyzing images of so-called "gravitational lenses" in space. That means that analysis which previously took months can now be carried out in a fraction a second.
September 19, 2017 Voyager 1, humanity's farthest spacecraft, marks 40 years in space NASA's Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, a few weeks after its twin, Voyager 2. Together, the two Voyager spacecraft performed an epic "Grand Tour" of the solar system's giant planets, flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
September 19, 2017 Aliens could learn about us from math on Voyager's Golden Record The Voyager 1 probe, which launched 40 years ago today (Sept. 5), is humankind's most distant physical emissary, at almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its sister-spacecraft, Voyager 2, which launched two weeks earlier in 1977, gave scientists their first close-up views of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And the spacecraft famously carried with them what could be aliens' first views of Earth, its inhabitants and their culture: copies of the Golden Record.
September 19, 2017 William Shatner sends message to NASA Voyager probes for 40th anniversary In honor of NASA's Voyager 1 probe's 40th anniversary today (Aug.
September 19, 2017 SpaceX launches Air Force's super-secret minishuttle SpaceX launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit.
September 18, 2017 Elon Musk unveils prototype for SpaceX astronaut suit with Crew Dragon capsule Elon Musk wants to win the race with Boeing to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station, and today he unveiled our first full look at the prototype for the SpaceX astronaut spacesuit.