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Smithsonian documentary 'Black in Space' looks at race and the space race
Race and the space race is the focus of a new documentary profiling the first African American astronauts. "Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier" chronicles the efforts by the...
The seismicity of Mars
On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium Planitia region. Seventy Martian days later, the mission's seismometer SEIS began recording the planet's...
NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Venus Rover Concept
To survive the planet's intense heat and crushing surface pressure, the rover would need an obstacle-avoidance system unlike any other.
A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars Mission
A batch of new papers summarizes the lander's findings above and below the surface of the Red Planet.
The Black Keys announces 35-date summer concert tour
The Black Keys announced Monday plans for a summer concert tour to support the band's ninth studio album "Let's Rock."
Solar storms may leave gray whales 'blind' and stranded
A new study offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic sense to find their way through the ocean. This evidence comes from the...
Nasa's InSight probe senses hundreds of 'Marsquakes'
The US space agency's InSight probe detects over 450 significant seismic events since landing in 2018.
See record-high temperatures strip Antarctica of huge amounts of ice
Antarctica saw two record-high temperatures set between Feb. 6 and Feb.9, and that took a huge toll on the continent's ice, as seen in NASA images.
Watch: Pizza unofficially breaks Guinness record with 257 varieties of cheese
A pizzeria in France announced it broke a Guinness World Record by cooking up a pizza featuring 257 different varieties of cheese.
Magnetic field at Martian surface ten times stronger than expected
New data gleaned from the magnetic sensor aboard NASA's InSight spacecraft is offering an unprecedented close-up of magnetic fields on Mars.
'We've seen some weird stuff': Scientists release 1st findings from Mars InSight mission
Thanks to several instruments on the Mars InSight lander, scientists are discovering more about our planetary neighbour that will help them better understand what future explorers might expect living on...
Katherine Johnson: Hidden Figures Nasa mathematician dies at 101
Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures.
Mars is a seismically active world, first results from NASA's InSight lander reveal
The first science returns from NASA's InSight Mars lander reveal a seismically active Red Planet.
Shake it, baby! NASA robotic lander confirms quakes on Mars
NASA's robotic InSight lander has for the first time established that Mars is seismically active, but do not call the shaking, rattling and rolling taking place on the Red Planet...
What NASA’s InSight lander has learned about Mars’ magnetism and quakes
Mars is not quite dead, geologically speaking. The surface of the Red Planet trembles with Marsquakes, scientists report, one of several first results from the NASA InSight lander’s visit to Mars. “We’ve finally...
Pioneering black mathematician Katherine Johnson has died
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions and was portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.
Let's put the idea of garbage in the trash
We know we can recycle. We just aren't doing it properly yet. Here are a few ideas that could help us change that.
NASA's building a robot to explore Jupiter's moon Europa — from underneath its icy shell
The buoyant robot will "drive" upside down on the undersurface of Europa's ice.
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician portrayed in 'Hidden Figures,' has died
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions and was portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.
Europe's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover to make 'pit stop' for repair
The Rosalind Franklin robot will be moved from Cannes to Turin to fix a fault on its solar panels.
Katherine Johnson, 'Hidden Figures' mathematician on early U.S. space missions, dead at 101
Katherine Johnson, a black mathematician whose little-known flight path calculations for NASA's early space missions were brought to light in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures," died on Monday at 101.
New binary millisecond pulsar discovered in NGC 6205
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have detected a new binary millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster NGC 6205. The newly found pulsar received designation PSR...
Mars 2020: The search for ancient life is on
Planetary scientists believe that Mars was once warmer, had a significant atmosphere, and maintained abundant flowing water that carved out river channels and pooled in lakes. These conditions would, at...
Image: Hubble fingerprints a galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is no stranger to spiral galaxies. The telescope has brought us some of the most beautiful images ever taken of our spiral neighbors—and the galaxy...
Man dies in rocket crash after launching to see if Earth is flat
A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see for himself if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket...
Discovery Alert: This Four-planet System is Bleeding
Planets: DMPP-1 d, e, c and b The discovery: Three “hot super-Earths” and a “warm Neptune” orbit a relatively nearby, bright star not unlike our own Sun, a new study suggests. One...
How interferometry works, and why it's so powerful for astronomy
When astronomers talk about an optical telescope, they often mention the size of its mirror. That's because the larger your mirror, the sharper your view of the heavens can be....
Hubble telescope test inspires changes to combat gender bias in some NASA programs
Stars don't see gender, and now, NASA is working to not see it either when allocating telescope time to scientists, inspired by a successful experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope.