NASA to Launch Boeing Starliner Cargo Spacecraft to ISS; How to Watch Live

Medicine & Technology Aug 02, 2021

NASA is poised to launch the second uncrewed flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station.

NASA's Studies Correlation of Thunderstorm and Climate Change Using ER-2 809 Airplane

Jul 31, 2021

A new NASA-led study will conduct an investigation regarding the impacts of thunderstorm activities to climate change in a robot plane specialized to visit higher heights of the atmosphere.

NASA's Perseverance Rover Reveals First Martian Rock Sampling Location

Jul 31, 2021

NASA's Perseverance rover prepares to collect its first Martian rock sample a year after its launch. The rock sample will be brought back to Earth in a joint NASA and ESA mission as early as 2031.

Russia's Nauka Module Unexpectedly Tilted ISS: NASA Assures No One Was Endangered, Space Station Regained Its Control

Jul 30, 2021

A space station emergency occurred when Russia's Nauka module thrusters suddenly fired up, causing the ISS to lose altitude control by around 45 degrees. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and ISS is now back in control.

This 7-Year-Old Is Probably The Youngest Astronomer To Ever Find 7 Asteroids!

Jul 28, 2021

Nicole Oliveira, a 7-year-old Brazilian girl, has been named the world's youngest astronomer after discovering seven asteroids for NASA.

Boeing's Starliner Set to Launch this Week: Here's How to Catch its Orbital Test Flight

Jul 28, 2021

Boeing is set to launch its CST-100 Starliner later this week for its Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2). Here's how you can watch "Launch America" on July 30.

NASA's Apollo 15 Mission: First Space Car Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Jul 28, 2021

Let us take a look back at the first ever space automobile driven on the surface of the Moon, 50 years after America's fourth successful Moon landing.

Russian ISS Module Has Detached From ISS for Incoming Nauka

Jul 27, 2021

Russian cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station along with the Pirs airlock and docking compartment to give way to Nauka lab module.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Has Now Flown Over One Mile, Capturing Images to Help Perseverance Rover

Jul 26, 2021

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now flown over one mile, marking its successful tenth flight on the Red Planet. It has taken photos of Raised Ridges that Perseverance rover might soon be visiting.

Artificial Intelligence Improves NASA's Sun Images, Solar Dynamics Observatory Says

Jul 25, 2021

Experts said that the upcoming artificial intelligence could specifically enhance NASA's captured images of the Sun.

Great Pyramid of Giza-Sized Asteroid to 'Close' Approach Earth Soon, Should We Worry?

Jul 24, 2021

An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall will make a "close" approach with Earth on Sunday, NASA calculations said.

SpaceX Awarded $178 Million Contract for NASA's Jupiter Europa Clipper Mission

Jul 24, 2021

SpaceX has just been awared a $178 million contract for NASA to use the Falcon Heavy Rocket to launch the Clipper and future rover to Jupiter's 6th moon, Europa.

$4.25B Europa Clipper Spacecraft is Going to Jupiter's Icy Moon Aboard Falcon Heavy, NASA Announced

Jul 23, 2021

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will be sending NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter instead of the original plan of sending it via the Space Launch System (SLS), saving NASA $2 billion.

NASA Gives Boeing Starliner A Go Signal For July 30 Test Launch

Jul 23, 2021

NASA and Boeing held a day-long flight readiness review Thursday and cleared the company's CST-100 Starliner astronaut ferry ship for launch July 30 on a second unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station.

Moon Exploration: SIU Engineering Students Win NASA's Competition to Design Mining Robots

Jul 23, 2021

Engineering students from Southern Illinois University Carbondale have won first place in LUNABOTS, NASA’s annual robotics mining competition, which aims to produce robots that can operate and mine on the Moon.