This Week In Space podcast: Episode 182 — The Dream is Alive
The Dream is Alive – With NASA Astronaut Terry Hart – YouTube Watch On On Episode 182 of…
Mars is covered with gullies, but no one is sure what created them
When scientists first spotted long, narrow gullies carved into the sand dunes of Mars, some believed they could…
The moon and Venus take a morning stroll through the sky on Oct. 19
A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in…
NASA supercomputers calculated when life will end on Earth. Here’s our deadline
In collaboration with researchers from Toho University in Japan, NASA researchers have used supercomputers to model and determine…
$20 million NASA mission to visit ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid saved from budget cuts in last-minute decision
NASA‘s plans to fly a spaceship alongside a potentially hazardous asteroid in 2029 will continue — for the…
Orion spacecraft makes crucial move toward its 2026 launch to moon
Oct. 17 (UPI) — NASA’s Orion spacecraft was moved seven miles to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy…
MIT finds traces of a lost world deep within planet Earth
Researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have uncovered exceptionally rare traces of “proto Earth,” the ancient precursor to…
US military greenlights up to 100 SpaceX launches per year from California
Many more rockets may lift off from California next year. On Oct. 10, the Department of the Air…
Astronomers capture first image of a star that exploded twice
A star died in a way that astronomers had long suspected but never seen so clearly. Its remains…
An Earth scientist solved a Mars mystery about what dug these weird ditches
Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars‘ sand dunes have intrigued scientists for years. These Martian features…
China tests deep-sea ‘Spider’ to track ghostly cosmic neutrinos
Chinese scientists have made a major step in the hunt for elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos. Researchers from…
“This Contradicts a Rule in Chemistry”: Unexpected Discovery Reveals ‘Impossible’ Molecular Combinations Could Exist on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Impossible molecular combinations are possible on Saturn’s moon Titan, say researchers from NASA and Sweden’s Chalmers University of…