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China brought the first moon rocks back to Earth in 45 years. They hint at mysterious volcanic eruptions.
China brought the first moon samples to Earth since 1976. They're lava remnants from a mysterious v…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Don't let NASA fool you: The next astronauts on the moon will not be wearing black spacesuits
NASA and Axiom revealed a black prototype of a new spacesuit for the first moon missions since 1972…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories
Fall for conspiracy theories isn't driven by ignorance, or isolation, or insanity. It's something f…
Adam Rogers
Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster
Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
NASA's Webb Telescope spots a water plume twice the length of the US, spewing from a Saturn moon that could host alien life
Gigantic plumes of ocean water are spraying out of Enceladus at a rate of 79 gallons a second, crea…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
The mysterious case of NASA's missing $1.1 billion moon lander
Mosher: The really revealing thing that Paul showed us was this progress chart from Grumman Of the …
David Anderson,Bob Hunt,Dave …
Chandrayaan 2: India reveals the mystery behind Vikram lander but its location is still unknown
“Vikram lander hard-landed as reduction in velocity during its descent did not match with the de…
Saturn's gravitational pull shredded an ancient moon, creating its iconic rings and unusual tilt, new research suggests
One of Saturn's icy moons may have been ripped apart 160 million years ago, a new study suggests. T…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
A chunk of SpaceX rocket that has drifted through space for years is on a collision course with the moon
Astronomers tracking space junk predict it will crash into the moon in March, making it potentially…
Marianne Guenot
Hyped up 'moon cube' discovered by Chinese rover turns out to be a rabbit-shaped rock
China's Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, drove towards the "mysterious hut" for a better …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet-wide heat wave, a map animation reveals, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists
A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the vid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A mesmerizing NASA video lets you ride with the Juno spacecraft as it flies by Jupiter and its largest moon
Juno flew within 645 miles of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, last week - the closest any spacecr…
Aria Bendix
Astronomers discover whirling electric winds at Saturn's north pole, solving a decades-old NASA mystery
Saturn's aurora borealis, unlike auroras on other planets, is driven by a powerful weather system. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
After 10 years of trying, NASA finally bounced its first-ever laser beam off the lunar orbiter
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been bouncing lasers off the Moon sinc…
Jeff Bezos is throwing a mysterious event for his rocket company, Blue Origin, and it may be about a moon mission
Still, almost nothing is publicly known about what Bezos will say, and he may present something els…
Dave Mosher
Scientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon's far side, and it's 5 times bigger than Hawaii's Big Island
The other mission was the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), which involved two spac…
Dave Mosher
There's something mysterious about Jupiter's many moons
The Galilean moons are still the largest, and probably the coolest, of Jupiter's moons. I…
Meghan Bartels
Earth contains buried chunks of an alien world that are 'millions of times larger than Mount Everest,' research suggests
Chunks of dense rock hundreds of miles tall lie in Earth's mantle. They may have come from an ancie…
Aylin Woodward
Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…