Nov 30 Column: Our planet will suffer if Trump shutters NASA Earth science By David Biello The end of ice on Earth is merely one thing we won’t be able to monitor if NASA stops using satellites to look at our home, author David Biello writes… Continue reading
Nov 23 Under Trump, NASA may lose climate research By Lee Billings, Scientific American President-elect Donald Trump’s next target in his political denial of human-driven global warming and climate change might be NASA’s $2-billion annual budget for Earth science. Continue reading
Nov 17 Pluto’s heart may conceal an ocean By Lee Billings, Scientific American Astronomers have just found the best evidence yet of an entire ocean in an exceedingly unlikely place—the dwarf planet Pluto. Continue reading
Nov 16 National Geographic makes hazardous journey to ‘MARS’ in new miniseries By Nsikan Akpan The myriad strains of a future deep space journey percolate through ‘MARS’ — a new six-part miniseries on the National Geographic Channel. Continue reading
Nov 12 An epic supermoon is on the horizon By Ryan Connelly Holmes Look up early next week, and you will see a supermoon at its closest in a generation. Continue reading
Oct 21 Mystery solved. ExoMars lander crashed, possibly exploded on the Red Planet By Alison Thoet The European Space Agency lost communication with the Schiaparelli lander soon after it entered the Martian atmosphere on Wednesday. On Friday, mission scientists revealed its fate. Continue reading
Sep 29 Shake shake shake. Planet Mercury may have earthquakes By Harry Zahn Data from the NASA MESSENGER probe confirms Mercury is the second known planet with tectonic activity in our solar system, plus one other cool feature. Continue reading
Sep 22 If this U.S. astronaut can vote from space, you can too By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Kate Rubins, the lone American in orbit, will end up voting for president from the International Space Station, if her homecoming is delayed. Continue reading
Aug 16 Smashing past global temperature highs, July was the hottest month on record By Eugene Mason 2016 is also quickly outpacing last year as the hottest year ever. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 6:35 The unsung women heroes of America’s space program By PBS News Hour They were living, breathing, walking, talking calculators who were key to America’s early space program. And they were women — and largely forgotten. At the time, the supercomputers that NASA now uses to crunch its numbers didn’t exist. Nathalia Holt… Continue watching