Ten years ago today, my friend Doug interrupted a lazy Saturday morning to call with an urgent question: Do you have the TV on? That’s when I learned that the space shuttle Columbia should have landed in Florida but never would. I spent the rest of the day obsessively watching the news...
The same invention that quenched astronauts' thirst in space has left its mark on those on Earth as well. 1: Water Filters Water -- it tastes even better when it's (mostly) free of those annoying microorganisms. Photo courtesy of CDC Even though astronauts do their jobs miles away fr...
The same invention that quenched astronauts' thirst in space has left its mark on those on Earth as well. 1: Water Filters Water -- it tastes even better when it's (mostly) free of those annoying microorganisms. Photo courtesy of CDC Even though astronauts do their jobs miles away fr...
“The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a question mark at the moment,” Isaacman, who was tapped by Trump last week to lead NASA, said in response to a question at the Spacepower 2024 conference in Orlando. “It may wind up on hold for a moment.” Isaacman, a pr...
1 NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.Chris O'Meara/Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Known across the globe as the stuck astro...
The iconic Pillars of Creation. The Hubble Space Telescope's view on the left, the new James Webb Space Telescope photo on the right.(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).) ...
Kepler's science instrument, or photometer, already has measured hundreds of possible planet signatures that are being analyzed. While many of these signatures are likely to be something other than a planet, such as small stars orbiting larger stars, ground-based observatories have confirmed the ...
If photoevaporation were the cause, it likely would have happened hundreds of millions of years earlier, they figure, and the planets would have barely any atmospheres left to speak of.But to put the question to bed, scientists will need to conduct several follow-up studies in the future to...
When NASA posted a photo of clouds in the Jovian jet stream, social media users had some fun poking fun at the "alien-like" face hidden in the swirls. "It looks a little bit like something out of an Alien movie. The kind of egg you definitely don't want for breakfast," one Twitter...
Mark and Scott Kelly during a news conference at the Johnson Space Center, in 2015. Photo: NASA AP: What kind of follow-ups to the Twins Study would you like to see from NASA? MK:Well I’d like them to let me go back in space for just like a couple weeks. That would be nice....