Measurements of phosphine in Venus’s clouds have sparked speculation that it could have come from life,…
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NASA is about to grab a chunk of rock from asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to extend its robotic arm and bounce off the asteroid Bennu,…
Two old spacecraft may be about to catastrophically collide in orbit
A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster are on a collision course. If they…
Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit
A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster have narrowly avoided a collision. If they…
The moon had a magnetic field that helped protect Earth's atmosphere
Some 4 billion years ago, the moon may have had a magnetic field that combined with…
Asteroid Bennu was once part of a space rock with flowing water
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has performed detailed analyses of the asteroid Bennu, which revealed signs of ancient…
International Space Station image shows beauty of the world's oceans
This spectacular image from inside the International Space Station’s observation dome peeks through clouds to reveal…
An Earth-sized rogue planet is roaming the galaxy without a star
Most of the rogue planets we’ve found floating in space without stars have been huge, but…
Nobel prize for physics won by black hole pioneers
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez share the 2020 Nobel prize for physics for their…
Space rock Arrokoth may have been flattened by the heat of the sun
The surface of Arrokoth, an oddly flat body on the edge of the solar system, may…