Dec 13 Virgin Galactic tourist rocket ship reaches space in test By John Antczak, Associated Press Thursday's supersonic flight takes Virgin Galactic closer to turning the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism into reality. The company aims to take paying customers on the six-passenger rocket, which is about the size of an executive jet. Continue reading
Dec 13 You may not even need a telescope this weekend to see this comet By Shannon Schmoll, The Conversation Comet 46P/Wirtanen is expected to make an appearance Dec. 14 to 19 that may well be visible even to the naked eye. Photo by Suchart Kuathan/via Getty Images… Continue reading
Dec 03 WATCH: NASA’s Osiris-Rex reaches Bennu, in mission to bring home asteroid dust By Nsikan Akpan Part pioneer and part dirt collector, Osiris-Rex will spend the next year or so looking for a spot to capture pieces of the asteroid before heading back to Earth. Continue reading
Nov 26 WATCH: NASA’s InSight lands on Mars after 6-month journey through space By Julia Griffin The first NASA lander to explore the interior of another planet successfully landed on Mars Monday. Continue reading
Oct 25 Hazardous space junk is piling up. Can this satellite help? By Vicky Stein More than a half a million pieces of trash whiz at more than 17,000 miles per hour around the planet, threatening the lives of astronauts on the International Space Station and the functionality of satellites scattered across low Earth orbit. Continue reading
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