With NASA astronaut Alan Shepard aboard, Mercury Redstone-3, America’s first piloted spaceflight is launched on May 5,...
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Unlike science fiction films featuring grotesque aliens and faraway galaxies, Ridley Scott’s The Martian depicts a sci-fi...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
This enhanced-color view from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy...
International Space Station / Wikimedia Commons 05/16/2016 Around the World 100,000 Times The International Space Station is...
We’re on the hunt for life – what do we do when we find it? NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS By...
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. / Credit...
Members of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s rocketry team said at NASA’s Student Launch competition that they...
Katherine Johnson worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center from 1953 to 1986. Since her retirement, she’s been...
Imagined view from the surface of one of the newly discovered planets, with ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1...
By Dr. Julie Robinson International Space Station Chief Scientist Collecting data before, during and after the mission...
04.28.2016 Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s Planck and a large list of...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons Stephen Petranek untangles emerging technologies to predict which will become fixtures...
Artist’s impression depicting a compact object – either a black hole or a neutron star – feeding...
© Adam Batchelor If we met new life – on this planet or the next – would...
This Earth Day, NASA is giving the world an insider’s look into the myriad activities the space...
The Morris Loeb Lecture in Physics and The Black Hole Initiative Inauguration. Stephen Hawking (pictured) delivers a...
On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in...
Edited by Ashley Morrow / 04.15.2016 At first glance, this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image seems to...
Photo Credit: NASA By Sarah Loff / 04.14.2016 On April 14, 1981, the rear wheels of the...
From NASA Johnson Material from NASA.gov Bigelow Expandable Activity Module This artist’s concept depicts the Bigelow Expandable...
Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place:...
An artist’s concept of another triple-star system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) From Rachel Feltman at The Washington Post / 04.04.2016...
A shadow and tracks of NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity appear in this March 22, 2016, image, which...
What smacked Jupiter on March 17? Watch below: From VideoFromSpace, YouTube
This artist concept depicts the Space Launch System rocket rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at...
NASA, ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and G. Ogrean (Stanford University) From the European Space Agency / 03.25.2016:...
This image of haze layers above Pluto’s limb was taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)...
NASA From Fiona MacDonald at Science Alert: We finally have an understanding of how Mars transformed from...
“It (could be) life Jim, but (perhaps) not as we know it.” This is not just a...