NASA launches have become so routine that the media barely take notice. After 125 missions, perhaps this is to be expected. We can get used to almost anything, taking for granted what our energy, ingenuity, and dreams have granted us.
NASA launches have become so routine that the media barely take notice. After 125 missions, perhaps this is to be expected. We can get used to almost anything, taking for granted what our energy, ingenuity, and dreams have granted us.
You shot yourself in the foot by calling them Space Shuttles. "Shuttles" don't boldly go where no man has gone before, they go to Chicago, and occasionally bring you from Parking Lot T to the front entrance of the State Fair.
The Sputnik moment for clean energy has not passed, and if reelected, President Obama may have another opportunity to do a big thing or two.
In the search for life on other planets, scientists are looking beyond single-celled organisms and are developing techniques that would help them detect multicellular life.
By Dr. Janice Bishop; Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, and Gail Jacobs Dr. Janice Bishop is a chemist and pla...
AREA 51 sits inside of the largest government-controlled land parcel in the United States, the Nevada Test and Training Range. It's a little smaller than Connecticut, three times the size of Rhode Island, and more than twice the size of Delaware.
In order to drum up publicity for NASA's downsized space programs, Captain Mark E. Kelly of the Navy will be live-tweeting the entire mission.
Alan Shepard became the first American in space, twenty-three days after Russian Yuri Gagarin had orbited the earth. The flight was history-making.
Our contributing photographer set up seven cameras around the launchpad with hand-built triggers designed to fire in response to the ear-splitting roar of the rockets igniting.
Lori's recent publications describe how dunes record climate change on Mars, the first evidence for dune migration on another planet, and how atmospheric models can be used to account for wind gustiness and its effects on sand movement.
If we allow private enterprise to explore and take advantage of the Moon's resources, we may set ourselves on the road to energy independence.
Thirty years after the debut of the space shuttle, a launch is still one of mankind's most complex undertakings -- a carefully-primed $1.3 billion explosion that turns years of planning into a spectacle that lasts only a few moments.
Did John Glenn ever experience fear? In his own words: "How do you think you'd feel if you knew you were on top of two million parts built by the lowest bidder on a government contract?"
In addition to the plaques and records fastened to the Pioneer and Voyager space probes, we've occasionally fired up powerful radio transmitters to broadcast pictograms to stars near and far.
At a time when politicians say we need to be trimming the budget, why are senators pushing to spend $2 billion on their Senate Launch System, which uses an outdated approach to space exploration?
After a starquake, says NASA's Dr. Jon Jenkins, "stars actually change their shape. This shape change causes an apparent change in brightness. As we study the brightness variations in time, we can essentially hear the songs of the stars."
Science is not a special interest; it's a national interest. And it's time for organized labor -- as well as the business community -- to rally behind it.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The negative impacts of climate change are coming on more quickly than anyone expected. According to a new...
Republicans are far more skeptical of "global warming" than of "climate change," a study led by a University of Michigan psychologist found. Among Democrats, on the other hand, about 85 percent do.
I spoke to NASA scientist Ira Leifer at length about data collected during the oil spill last summer, strengthening claims that oil was brought onshore in rain during the spill.