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NASA's recent launch of the Ares 1-X was billed as the prototype of a crew launch vehicle, a fancy term for a manned space booster. In fact, the much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology
Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qu...
Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
These extraordinary images are literally out of this world. Galaxies and supernovae, protostellar jets and pulsars: these pictures of stars from the ...
dsc.discovery.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects....
William Pomerantz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
We're clearly coming into an era where commercial competition will have a major impact on the aerospace community -- and on the financial community as well.
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program t...
Posted 10.27.2009 | Technology
As NASA prepares for the launch of its lofty new Ares I-X rocket, we decided to take a look back at the biggest rockets of years' past. See how NA...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its newest rocket for a shakedown flight, but clouds and high wind kept it stuck o...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.
AP/Huffington Post | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Technology
(MARCIA DUNN, AP) CAPE CANAVERAL-- NASA's lofty new rocket arrived at the launching pad Tuesday for a test flight next week that comes at a time when ...
AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Technology
LOS ANGELES — NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said. New imag...
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
I think there's a message in Chicago losing the Olympics. I also think there's a message in the moon invasion despite its alleged success. The message is a simple one: It's time to focus on home.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, has just produced new images of the solar system that has shocked astronomers. This first full-sized m...
Jennifer Schneider | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver
Is it possible that the climate change communication problem is no longer a problem of science education at all, and trying to clarify and explain the science might be counterproductive?
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology
See photos below CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is inviting its Twitter followers to the next space shuttle launch. The shuttle Atlantis was moved...
Lee Schneider | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
People don't trust science like they used to. A Pew Research Center poll says that only 27 percent of Americans think our greatest achievements are in science - down from 47 percent a decade ago.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. Shock and awe or shocking and awful? Also, NASA sends two rockets to explode on moon. Luckily, the moon does not fire back.
Buzz Aldrin | Posted 10.12.2009 | Technology
A quarter of a million miles from where you are reading these words, on the dusty surface of our companion Moon, lies the best chance in decades for America to reestablish itself as a global space leader.
Posted 10.12.2009 | Impact
The national space program is scheduled to end soon, and a vocal group of enthusiasts, businesses and cities have banded together to promote Save Spac...
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.
AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | Technology
*See video of NASA moon bombing and photos of LCROSS below* WASHINGTON Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Fr...
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology
NASA's slamming a satellite into the Moon?! Hasn't anybody thought this through? The Moon's going to be forced from its orbit! Giant tides will wash around the Earth! The Man in the Moon will be mad at us!
Posted 10.09.2009 | Technology
*Watch video and see pictures below* UPDATE: The AP reports that NASA's LCROSS mission has successfully bombed the moon in the quest to find water in...
AP | AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
LOS ANGELES (AP)- NASA says the chances of an 885-foot asteroid striking Earth in 2036 have been downgraded. Scientists initially believed there was ...
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Buzz Aldrin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology