Alien Planet-Hunters In Hundreds Of Nearby Star Systems Could Spot Earth Potentially, observers in plenty of star systems could have detected Earth sometime in the last 5,000 years. More stars will soon move into positions that would let them see our planet. Nell Greenfieldboyce
Jeff Bezos Is Going To Space (For A Few Minutes) "Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space," Bezos said. The 11-minute flight will take place two weeks after the billionaire steps down as Amazon CEO. Laurel Wamsley
World The Vatican's Space Observatory Wants To See Stars And Faith Align For a long time, the Catholic Church rejected scientific findings that conflicted with its doctrine, even persecuting Galileo. Now the Vatican looks to promote its observatory as a bridge to science. Sylvia Poggioli
Robotic balloons to explore Venus? An Oregon company is working on it The space agency NASA has chosen a small Tillamook-based aerospace company to design and test robotic balloons for future scientific exploration of... Tom Banse
Experts Ponder Nuclear Rockets To Send Humans To Mars Nuclear rocket technology might be the fastest, safest way to get to the red planet. But if NASA wants to go, it should start development now. Geoff Brumfiel
World China Promises To Share Findings From Its Returned Lunar Probe The successful completion of the Chang'e-5 mission makes China only the third country to have returned soil and rock samples from the surface of the moon. Jaclyn Diaz
Jupiter And Saturn Will Be Together Again For The Holidays At least, that's how it will look to someone craning their head aloft. On the winter solstice, the pair of gas giants will appear closer to each other in the night sky than they have in centuries. Colin Dwyer
California Scientists Build A Camera To Take Pictures Of Huge Swath Of Sky Scientists and engineers in California are building a unique 3.2 billion pixel camera for a telescope under construction in Chile. The camera has taken its first test pictures — of broccoli. Joe Palca
In Uncrewed Test, Boeing's Starliner Capsule Fails To Reach Space Station After a flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., the crew capsule, loaded with 600 pounds of cargo for the station, was unable to reach its intended orbit, Boeing says. Brendan Byrne
Amazon expands satellite labs in Redmond Amazon wants to surround the planet with satellites. And they're going to do from new labs in Redmond. Carolyn Adolph