Oct 11 U.S., Russian astronauts safe after emergency landing By Dmitry Lovetsky, Associated Press The rescue capsule automatically jettisoned from the booster and went into a ballistic descent, landing at a sharper than normal angle and subjecting the crew to heavy gravitational force. Continue reading
Sep 23 This beaming sculpture will shine from earth’s orbit — and probe the politics of space By Corinne Segal Trevor Paglen's sculpture "Orbital Reflector" is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in mid-November, raising questions about who controls space and why. Continue reading
Sep 11 Meet the scientist behind these stunning images of Jupiter By Vicky Stein Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a planetary scientist, has been photographing celestial bodies for decades. But for the Juno mission, her collaborators are citizen scientists. Continue reading
Aug 23 WATCH: Pence says Space Force will be established by 2020 By Erica R. Hendry The vice president is scheduled to speak at 1:45 p.m. EDT. Watch his remarks here. Continue reading
Aug 15 These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet. Continue reading
Aug 12 NASA spacecraft rockets toward sun for closest look yet By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before. Continue reading
Aug 10 WATCH: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off for 7-year mission around the sun By Nsikan Akpan NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday. Watch live here. Continue reading
Jul 26 WATCH: As the longest lunar eclipse arrives, learn about blood moon myths from around the world By Daniel Brown, The Conversation On Friday, millions of have the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse – an event popularly known in the media as a “blood moon” – on Friday… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 6:03 Life on Mars? Watery new discovery raises tantalizing possibilities By Miles O'Brien Scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir beneath the southern ice cap of Mars. Radar suggests it is more than 12 miles wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the Greenland and… Continue watching
Jul 25 Mars has a giant hidden lake. Could there be life in it? By Lee Billings, Scientific American Deep beneath the frigid surface of its southern ice cap, Mars holds a lake of liquid water nearly three times larger than the island of Manhattan. Continue reading