CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful constructi...
Tad Daley | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
This period, where we hold this capability to destroy ourselves but before we have found a way to save ourselves, might be called the human race's ultimate "window of vulnerability."
Bill Chameides | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
Today is the 40th anniversary of the first lunar walk, and, not counting the late Michael Jackson, it's been almost that long since the last moonwalk. Is it time to do it again?
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style
Four decades after the moonlanding, I found myself sitting among the bidders at Bonhams New York. On the 40th anniversary of the launch, the auction house was holding its first space sale ever.
Posted 08.15.2009 | Home
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After more than a month's delay, space shuttle Endeavour and ...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
UPDATED 7/16: The enhanced footage of the 1969 moonwalk has been released by NASA. Watch the video: As part of NASA's 40th anniversary celebratio...
Popular Science | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
* The toughest moonwalk task? Planting the flag. NASA's studies suggested that the lunar soil was soft, but Armstrong and Aldrin found the surface to ...
Posted 07.24.2009 | World
***UPDATE*** Readers have pointed out that this is a rendered video reconstructing in 3-D, based on the observation date the satellite sent back minut...
US News and World Report | Posted 07.20.2009 | New York
In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest pers...
Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Several studies in recent years have claimed evidence for shorelines and other features that suggest ancient lakes on Mars. Firm evidence has remained...
WSJ | Keith Johnson | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
PowerSat Corp., based in Everett, Wash., said Tuesday it had filed for a patent meant to solve two of the trickier problems bedeviling those engineers...
Johann Hari | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
There is so much space trash that scientists are warning it could be poised to take out the satellites we depend on every day -- and trap us here on a heating earth.
Wall Street Journal | Rachel Dodes | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style
The handbag had landed. The French luxury brand Louis Vuitton plans to announce today a high-profile new ad campaign featuring 79-year-old astronaut B...
AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 06.24.2009 | Home
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Flori...
Samuel J. Palmisano | Posted 06.22.2009 | New York
The world's cities are the proverbial melting pot -- not only for immigrants, but for systems, blending them together to engender new forms of commerce, of culture, of science, of life and of society.
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dan...
William Pomerantz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
A document submitted to Congress by NASA in late April indicates that as much as $150 million may be set added to the COTS program.
Peter Clothier | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
This book covers a truly amazing amount of material -- much of which was surprising and fresh even to one who has followed the adventures of human beings in space since the first Sputnik.
AP | JENNIFER QUINN | Posted 05.22.2009 | Home
HATFIELD, England — In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is...
AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green
DARMSTADT, Germany — Researchers concerned about an increasing amount of debris orbiting the earth are calling for the active removal of space j...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
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Daily Telegraph | Posted 04.22.2009 | World
Teenagers armed with only a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth. ...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
I grant you it is not high on President Obama's priority list but, if he cannot ground NASA, he will never be able to rein in the much more powerful Pentagon.
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construc...
Discover Magazine | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
Now, Stanford University scientists believe they have a solution--though it certainly has a long path to approval, let alone implementation. They have...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 08.31.2009 | Home