SpaceX Signs Pact To Start Rocket Testing At NASA Stennis

11 years ago

SpaceX -- the maker and operator of the Dragon spacecraft that runs periodic cargo flights to the International Space Station…

Antarctic Sea Ice Takes Over More Of The Ocean Than Ever Before

11 years ago

Antarctica's sea ice is creeping further out in the ocean! New data from a Japanese satellite shows that sea ice…

Rocky Earth-sized World is a ‘Sungrazing’ Exoplanet

11 years ago

A newly verified planet found in data from the Kepler mission delivers on the space telescope’s task of finding Earth-size…

What Is The Hottest Place on Earth?

11 years ago

We’ve talked about Venus, the hottest planet in the Solar System, but we know things can get pretty hot here…

New Dark Matter Detector Draws A Blank In First Test Round

11 years ago

We keep saying dark matter is so very hard to find. Astronomers say they can see its effects -- such…

Catastrophic Impacts Made Life on Earth Possible

11 years ago

How did life on Earth originally develop from random organic compounds into living, evolving cells? It may have relied on…

Say Goodbye to Boring Airline Safety Presentations

11 years ago

No more falling asleep before takeoff during those boring safety presentations – at least on Virgin America Airlines. Delta Airlines…

New Space Station Instrument Raises Windy Science From The Dead

11 years ago

Here's a cool example of a satellite recycling project. NASA used to have a probe called QuikSCAT that took a…

Four Comets Haunt the Halloween Dawn! Here’s How to See Them

11 years ago

Get your astronomical trick-or-treat bags ready. An excursion under the Halloween morning sky will allow you fill it in a…