Space & Cosmos
Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97
Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier...
Outer Space Just Got a Little Brighter
The universe is a shade too bright.That might be the last news you expected to hear toward the darkening...
A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet
As Douglas Adams once said: Space is big. Really big. Consequently, scientists see only tiny slivers of space at...
Watch the Moon Landing of China’s Chang’e-5 Spacecraft
China released video footage on Wednesday showing the arrival of its Chang’e-5 robotic spacecraft on the moon’s surface. Racing...
NASA Launched a Rocket 54 Years Ago. Has It Finally Come Home?
It was after midnight on Sept. 19 and Paul Chodas, the manager of the Center for Near Earth Object...
Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?
“By the times that A.I. comes back and tells you that, then we have reached artificial general intelligence, and...
Leonids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak in Night Skies
All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor...
The International Space Station: 20 Years of Promise, Peril and Fun
Nov. 2, 2000The International Space Station viewed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis’s crew optical alignment system for undocking in...
Goodnight to Our Beautiful, Wet Blue Moon
The moon remains, perpetually and since antiquity, a source of cultural wonder. Last week, when NASA announced that it...
NASA’s Asteroid Mission Packs Away Its Cargo. Next Stop: Earth.
As the canister was moved during the stowage steps, some more of the sample floated away. Dr. Lauretta estimated...
NASA Mission Springs a Small Leak After Touching an Asteroid
NASA’s effort to grab a piece of an asteroid on Tuesday may have worked a little too well. The...
NASA Touched an Asteroid. How Much Will It Bring Home?
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft touched the surface of an asteroid on Tuesday to gather a sample of rocks and...
Seeking Solar System’s Secrets, NASA’s OSIRIS-REX Mission Touches Bennu Asteroid
Its Hayabusa spacecraft landed on Itokawa, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2005. Although it faced a number of technical troubles...
Orionids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak in Night Skies
All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor...
Stuart Bowyer, Astronomer Who Lent His Ear to the Cosmos, Dies at 86
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others...
How a 2nd-Grade Class Sent a Science Experiment to Space
Back in 2015, students in Maggie Samudio’s second-grade class at Cumberland Elementary School in West Lafayette, Ind., were contemplating...
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astrophysicists Tuesday for work that was literally out of the...
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race
Cornwall, in England’s far southwest, is known for antique fishing villages and snug, cliff-lined beaches. Soon it may be...
At the Edge of Time, a Litter of Galactic Puppies
The discovery of a black hole surrounded by protogalaxies provides astronomers with a rare glimpse of the web of...
On Venus, Cloudy With a Chance of Microbial Life
In recent years the discovery of extremophiles, bacteria that live in nuclear reactors, hot ocean vents and other unlikely...
