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Celebrate Yuri's Night 2020 online with Bill Nye, astronauts and more this weekend!
This Saturday (April 11), 50 years after Apollo 13 launched to the moon, you can celebrate human spaceflight with a Yuri's Night livestream event.
What is the origin of water on Earth?
While everybody agrees that our blue planet is rich in water, this observation is at odd, first, with the exploration of other rocky planets, genuinely lacking surface water, and second,...
'Brews Brothers' star Alan Aisenberg 'can never drink beer again'
Comedy series "Brews Brothers" begins streaming Friday on Netflix, and star Alan Aisenberg said he hopes the bar-based sitcom will "help people disconnect from what's going on."
FCA recalls 318K vehicles for malfunctioning camera displays
The automaker said a software error could cause the rearview camera image to remain displayed after the vehicle has been shifted out of reverse.
Podcast: The chemist who helped save Apollo 13
Stereo Chemistry reveals the surprising origin story of the engine that brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home and the man who designed it
Portable showers to keep you clean while you’re off the grid
Shower wherever you are. (Amazon/)While camping is certainly meant to be a rugged activity, you don’t have to go weeks without showering. These portable showers are great for those on the go...
Mercury-bound spacecraft buzzes Earth, beams back pictures
A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its roundabout path to the solar system's smallest and innermost planet.
What a view! Mercury probe snaps stunning photos of our planet during Earth flyby.
A spacecraft bound for Mercury beamed home stunning views of Earth during a crucial flyby conducted early today (April 10).
Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars with Webb
High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die young. They often end their short lives in violent explosions called supernovas, but...
Rehearsal time for NASA's asteroid sampling spacecraft
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA's first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it safely back to Earth. In...
How did the TRAPPIST-1 planets get their water?
In 2017, an international team of astronomers announced a momentous discovery. Based on years of observations, they found that the TRAPPIST-1 system (an M-type red dwarf located 40 light-years from...
Apollo 13’s 50th anniversary recalls NASA tragedy turned triumph
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's launch on Saturday recalls a NASA tragedy that turned into a triumph of training and innovation.
50 years after Apollo 13, we can now see the moon as the astronauts did
Using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have recreated the Apollo 13 trip around the moon.
Meet Hope: The UAE's first spacecraft bound for Mars is now complete
If all goes smoothly this summer, three new spacecraft will launch toward Mars, including the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, dubbed Hope.
Help pave the way for Artemis: Send NASA your mini moon payload designs
Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes—from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like...
Q&A: Human spaceflight is a risk worth taking, says ESA head
by Jonathan O’Callaghan Human spaceflight is dangerous, but worth the risk, according to Jan Wörner, the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA). But even so, there are limits –...
A year after the first black hole image, the EHT has been stymied by the coronavirus
The scientists behind the first picture of a black hole are squeezing everything they can from the data they’ve got. A year after presenting a portrait of the supermassive black hole in...
BepiColombo closing in on Earth ahead of flyby – full sequence
Image: BepiColombo closing in on Earth ahead of flyby – full sequence
Apollo 13’s 50th anniversary recalls NASA tragedy turned triumph
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's launch on Saturday recalls a NASA tragedy that turned into a triumph of training and innovation.
BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12 700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory towards the...
BepiColombo’s close-up of Earth during flyby
Image: BepiColombo’s close-up of Earth during flyby
Farewell, Earth! Mercury probe makes successful flyby to head deeper into solar system.
A spacecraft taking the scenic route to Mercury successfully completed a crucial maneuver on its journey: a precisely choreographed swing past Earth.
Coachella was supposed to start on Friday. How crazy is that?
The postponement of this spring's Coachella festival was one of the first signs that the coronavirus would alter our way of life for the forseeable future.
Southern border apprehensions fall in March during pandemic
Undocumented immigration apprehensions along the southern border fell in March, possibly due to stringent travel restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.
Fine threads of million-degree plasma revealed in sharpest-ever images of sun
The sharpest-ever photos of the sun, captured by NASA's High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Hi-C, have revealed the fine magnetic threads of super heated plasma that make up the sun's outer layer.
'Hubble: Thirty Years of Discovery' to premiere on Science Channel April 19 (exclusive video)
NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope is about to celebrate 30 years in space, and Science Channel will mark the anniversary in style.
Chinese Long March 3B rocket fails during launch of Indonesian satellite
A Chinese rocket carrying a new communications satellite for Indonesia has failed to reach orbit in a launch gone awry, the second failure for China's space agency in less than...
A Mercury probe flies by Earth tonight. Here's how to hitch a VR ride (and maybe see it, too!)
The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission will whiz past our planet as the spacecraft continues on its long journey toward Mercury.