On April 10, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, researchers unveiled a history-making image - the 1st ever - of the "shadow" of a supermassive black hole.
Israel's Beresheet spacecraft will attempt the country's 1st-ever and 1st commercial landing on the moon on Thursday, April 11. The landing is expected between 19:00 and 20:00 UTC (2 to 3 p.m. CDT).
Solar physicists predict another weak 11-year solar cycle ahead. At the same time, they expect the coming cycle to break the trend of weakening solar activity seen over the past 4 cycles, and they add there's "no indication we are currently approaching a Maunder-type minimum in solar activity."
For the first time, an in-situ measurement of methane on Mars - made by NASA's Curiosity rover - has been independently confirmed from orbit, by ESA's Mars Express. Could it be a clue to Mars life?
The discovery of fossilized microbes in Martian meteorites has been claimed before. Now scientists in Hungary add a new study of the ALH-77005 meteorite, with some intriguing new evidence.
Watch Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos cross the sun in a pair of solar eclipses last month, in these animations made from images from the Curiosity rover's cameras.
The star is a white dwarf, a cool, dead, dense star like our sun some 6 billion years from now. The planet fragment - made of heavy metals - survived a system-wide cataclysm that followed the star's death.
Mars is a cold, dry desert, but a new study provides tantalizing evidence for liquid water deep below its surface. If it exists, this Mars groundwater might cause the weird dark streaks in Martian craters and canyons.