Sep 24 Watch India's low-budget space program may offer lesson for U.S. - Part 2 By PBS News Hour India’s successful first mission to Mars is a major accomplishment for that nation, in both scientific and budgetary terms. To understand the historic feat, India’s space program and where it fits into the American exploration of Mars, science correspondent Miles… Continue watching
Aug 12 NASA's carbon dioxide imaging mission shows first sign of success By Anna Christiansen A NASA spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has achieved final orbit, producing its first science data this week. Continue reading
Aug 07 Astronomers discover 2.6 million light-year bridge between galaxies By Justin Scuiletti A team of astronomers and students have discovered a stream of hydrogen gas in space that is the largest known to date -- and dwarfs our own galaxy in comparison. Continue reading
Aug 06 Rosetta spacecraft's first images of comet By Larisa Epatko After a 10-year, 4-billion-mile journey, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta space probe reached its final destination on Wednesday: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Continue reading
Jul 31 Why the moon hits your eye like a big ... lemon? By Justin Scuiletti Scientists have finally made lemonade out of the origins of our lemon-shaped moon. While the moon may look, to quote crooner Dean Martin, like a big pizza pie -- the real shape is a bit more similar to a lemon. Continue reading
Jul 16 45 years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off into space By Ariel Min Forty-five years ago today, the historic liftoff of Apollo 11 was broadcast around the country as America sent the first humans to the moon. Continue reading
Jun 04 Gravitational waves discovery may flatline under new analysis By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy This spring scientists announced that they had found gravitational waves, the "smoking gun" evidence that the universe rapidly expanded in the trillionths of a second after the Big Bang. But new studies suggest that waves they found were just dust… Continue reading
May 21 In space, 'take your protein pills' and get your Sriracha on By Talia Mindich In space, green beans taste like grass and sliced strawberries are repulsively sweet. That's according to NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock, who spent more than 178 days living -- and eating -- aboard the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery. Continue reading
May 02 Star cluster flung from distant galaxy at 2 million mph By Joshua Barajas Astronomers have discovered a cluster of several thousand stars that was ejected out of a distant galaxy at a stellar speed of more than two million miles per hour. The group of “runaway stars,” named HVGC-1 for “hypervelocity globular cluster,”… Continue reading
Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier By Margaret Myers Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… Continue reading