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*5 May – The [[InSight]] spacecraft, designed to study the interior and subsurface of the planet [[Mars]], successfully launches at 11:05 UTC, with an expected arrival on 26 November 2018.<ref name="NYT-20180505">{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |title=NASA's InSight Launches for Six-Month Journey to Mars |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/science/nasa-mars-insight-launch.html |date=5 May 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=5 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="NASA-20180505">{{cite web |last1=Agle |first1=D.C. |last2=Good |first2=Andrew |last3=Brown |first3=Dwayne |last4=Wendel |first4=JoAnna |title=NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made |website=[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7114 |date=5 May 2018 |access-date=5 May 2018 }}</ref>

*9 May – Scientists report that the curious physical phenomenon of [[quantum entanglement]] is even more supported based on recent rigorous [[Bell test experiments|Bell test experimentations]].<ref name="NAT-20180509">{{cite journal |author=The BIG Bell Test Collaboration |title=Challenging local realism with human choices |date=9 May 2018 |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=557 |issue=7704 |pages=212–216 |doi=10.1038/s41586-018-0085-3 |pmid=29743691 |bibcode=2018Natur.557..212B |arxiv=1805.04431 |s2cid=13665914 }}</ref><ref name="GIZ-20180511">{{cite web |last=Mandelbaum |first=Ryan F. |title=100,000 Video Game Players Helped Scientists Prove Einstein Wrong |url=https://gizmodo.com/100-000-video-game-players-helped-scientists-prove-eins-1825935176 |date=11 May 2018 |website=[[Gizmodo]] |access-date=12 May 2018 }}</ref>

*10 May – NASA's [[Carbon monitoring|Carbon Monitoring System (CMS)]] is cancelled by the [[PresidencyFirst presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2018-05-white-house-cancels-nasa-greenhouse.html|title=NASA program to track greenhouse gas is canceled (Update) |publisher=PhysOrg|date=10 May 2018|access-date=13 May 2018}}</ref>

*11 May – NASA approves the [[Ingenuity (helicopter)|Mars Helicopter]] for the [[Mars 2020]] mission.<ref name="NASA-20180511b">{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Dwayne |last2=Wendel |first2=JoAnna |last3=Agle |first3=DC |last4=Northon |first4=Karen |title=Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover Mission |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission |date=11 May 2018 |website=[[NASA]] |access-date=11 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="NYT-20180511">{{cite news |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |title=A Helicopter on Mars? NASA Wants to Try |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/science/mars-helicopter-nasa.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 May 2018 |access-date=12 May 2018 }}</ref><ref name="VRG-20180511">{{cite web |last=Gush |first=Loren |title=NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars to get a bird's-eye view of the planet |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/11/17346414/nasa-mars-2020-helicopter-atmosphere |date=11 May 2018 |website=[[The Verge]] |access-date=11 May 2018 }}</ref>

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