Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA kicked off a critical countdown test Friday for its new moon rocket, a 30-story behemoth that could make its first lunar test flight by sum… [+2763 chars]
A space rock the size of a skyscraper that scientists deemed "potentially hazardous" sailed harmlessly past Earth today (April 1) around 4:35 p.m. ET. Even though theasteroid only flew within roug… [+2024 chars]
NASA isn't done evaluating the career of telescope namesake James Webb, officials said after controversy surrounding the flagship observatory's name has continued since last summer. James Webb was t… [+6375 chars]
Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Libra/Getty Images When the Human Genome Project was declared completed in 2003, it had mapped 92% of genes, with the rest remaining a mystery for nearly two decades due t… [+3148 chars]
Sky watchers are in for a treat in April with the return of a meteor shower and a full Pink moon. The Lyrid meteor shower will peak on the night of Thursday, April 21 into the early hours of Friday,… [+1014 chars]
A fresh assessment of a distantly risky asteroid brings good news: it's even less of a threat than astronomers had feared. The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always t… [+3712 chars]
Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes PROMONTORY, Box Elder County As the nation works to put astronauts back on the moon, teams of scientists in Utah took a giant step towards that goal when they fired … [+2273 chars]
A planet 'almost identical' to Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years from Earth by NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists have revealed. The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is alm… [+8442 chars]
The microphone aboard Mars Rover Perseverance has captured a number of interesting noises in its explorations, but for the most part, “a deep silence prevails” on the red planet. You can still hear t… [+2174 chars]
The Goldilocks zone gets its name from the fairy tale, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Goldilocks is a fussy little girl whose porridge has to be just right — neither too hot nor too cold. It’s the… [+7761 chars]
Editors note: Marshall Brain futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of How Stuff Works is a contributor to WRAL TechWire, taking a serious as well as entertaining world of possibilit… [+6955 chars]
An exoplanet with distinctly Jupiter-like characteristics has been discovered in old data gathered by NASAs Kepler space telescope. Remarkably, Kepler made the observation using gravitational microle… [+5067 chars]
