A crater in western Australia was formed by a meteor strike more than 2.2 billion years ago and is the world's oldest known impact site, new research published Wednesday shows. The study marks the first time that the Yarrabubba crater has been precisely dated, at ...
Spacewalking astronauts wrap up ISS battery improvements after brief jet pack incident
A pair of spacewalking astronauts successfully wrapped up battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday, completing a job begun last fall. NASA's Jessica Meir and Christina Koch installed the last new battery in a set of six launched to the orbiting lab in ...
2010s was hottest decade on record — so far
The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records. "This is real. ...
NASA celebrates new astronauts in first public graduation ceremony
NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America's return to the moon and eventual journey to Mars. After completing more than two years of ...
NASA's planet hunter TESS finds Earth-size world in habitable zone 100 light-years away
NASA's planet-hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-size world within its star's habitable zone, where liquid water could be present. Another first for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is its discovery of a world orbiting two stars, evoking the planet Tatooine from "Star Wars" but ...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions
A NASA robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency's mission to send humans into deep space. The U.S. space agency Friday showed off its ...
NASA unveils Mars 2020 rover that will seek ancient life, prepare for human missions
The Mars 2020 rover, which will set off for the red planet next year, will search for traces of ancient life and also pave the way for human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle. The rover has been constructed in a ...
Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule fails key test of reaching space station
Boeing Co.'s new astronaut capsule failed on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in the embattled aerospace giant's race to send humans to the outpost. The CST-100 Starliner astronaut capsule was ...
Boeing faces huge test with Friday's launch of Starliner to ISS
NASA's effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn't happened since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend. Over the past decade, a lot of attention has been paid to billionaire space entrepreneurs ...
NASA finds Indian lunar lander with help of amateur space enthusiast
India's Vikram lunar lander, which crashed on its final approach to the moon's surface in September, has been found thanks in part to the sleuthing efforts of an amateur space enthusiast. NASA made the announcement Monday, releasing an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
The largest of Saturn's many moons has lakes, mountains and dunes, with its surface scarred and crafted by many of the same forces that have shaped Earth, scientists said Monday. A team led by Rosaly Lopes at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said Titan's ...
China completes Mars lander test ahead of planned 2020 mission
China on Thursday completed a test of its Mars exploration lander ahead of Beijing's first mission to the red planet slated for 2020. Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space program, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022. Thursday's hovering and obstacle ...
