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Construction begins on ESA’s Plato planet-hunter
The European Space Agency's next big planet-hunting mission - the Plato space telescope - will continue the search for rocky and potentially habitable worlds orbiting other stars.
October 7, 2018
Watch, as black holes spiral closer
A new simulation by scientists lets you witness supermassive black holes about to collide. One shows them from outside the system, just 40 orbits from merging. The other places you in their midst.
October 6, 2018
Groundbreaking science from ultra-close orbits of Saturn
Last year, in its Grand Finale, the Cassini spacecraft dove repeatedly between Saturn and its rings. This week, 6 teams of researchers published new research based on Cassini's final days and those daredevil dives.
October 6, 2018
New dwarf planet nicknamed The Goblin
The Goblin is a very small dwarf planet, very far away. It might help astronomers in their search for a much bigger world - the long-sought Planet X.
October 4, 2018
Did the Hubble telescope find the 1st exomoon?
Astronomers have tantalizing new evidence for a possible Neptune-sized moon orbiting the gas-giant planet Kepler-1625b, some 8,000 light-years away.
October 4, 2018
MASCOT returns 1st image from asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft deployed the MASCOT lander to asteroid Ryugu yesterday. Now, MASCOT has returned its 1st image. An international team of engineers and scientists in Germany is standing by.
October 3, 2018
Gaia reveals stars flying between galaxies
Only a small number of hypervelocity stars have ever been discovered. Now ESA's Gaia mission has revealed 20 more.
October 3, 2018
Breakthrough Listen brings ET search to Africa
Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Listen program said it has added the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to its global effort to listen for signals from an alien intelligence.
October 2, 2018
New image shows a haunting comet landscape
Citizen scientists now frequently explore spacecraft images, finding and processing hidden treasures. Jacint Roger Perez of Spain processed this Rosetta spacecraft view of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
October 1, 2018
Origami-inspired habitats for the moon and Mars
An innovative plan by the EuroMoonMars project uses Japanese origami - the art of folding paper into interesting shapes - to design and develop habitats for future human space explorers.
October 1, 2018
