Category: 7. Science

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.

SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night…

NASA is preparing for the likely loss of a long-running Mars orbiter after more than a month without contact.

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, known as MAVEN, last…

Allan H. MacDonald, a University of Texas at Austin physicist, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences for his work that has enabled scientists to transform and control extraordinary phenomena linked to…

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee to address the topic of “Key Non-Polar Destinations across the Moon to Address Decadal-level Science Objectives with Human…

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the Universe’s rate of expansion. Scientists know it’s expanding, but defining the rate of that expansion is challenging. The rate of expansion is called the Hubble Constant,…

NASA’s DART mission, the first-ever planetary defense test in space, sent a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid in 2022.

That mission was a success. It showed that, in a hypothetical scenario where a massive asteroid was hurtling towards…