Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate
Magnetic fields in 4-billion-year-old rocks suggest the dust and gas cloud that spawned the solar system had gone by 3.8 million years after the sun formed
NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life
If it goes ahead, the proposed lander mission would be NASA’s first search for life on the surface of another planet since the Mars Viking missions in the late seventies
Earth’s Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash
Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test
A JAXA spacecraft designed to clear Earth's neighbourhood of debris with an electrified cable re-entered the atmosphere this morning after a failed mission
Tiny spacecraft could brake at exoplanet using alien starlight
Lightweight solar sails could bring spacecraft to the nearest star in just 20 years – but hitting the brakes will be challenging. A new paper suggests using the stars themselves to park around their planets
The Birth—and Possible Death—of the SAGE III Atmospheric Satellite
Asteroid Mining Sounds Hard, Right? You Don’t Know the Half of It
Trump Names Former Climate Scientist Erik Noble to NASA Advisory Role
Curiosity finds Mars rock that may be a meteorite made from iron
Last week, NASA’s Curiosity rover took a picture that appears to show a new iron-nickel meteorite on Mars, one of only eight that have been discovered by rovers there so far
Gravity Waves Might Be Lighting Up Venus’ Atmosphere
