When Sally Ride arrived at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees ...

The Art and Science of Arachnids” is an interactive, educational and fear-free celebration of the eight-legged creatures. The exhibit runs through May 4 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Lincoln ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A joint military task force recently conducted search and rescue training off Florida’s east coast as ...

By Jonathan Corum Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could ... Both are aiming for the lunar surface. The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered ...

Commander Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore removed a broken antenna and wiped the station’s exterior for evidence of any ...

Bra manufacturer Playtex was called on to stitch together the space suits worn by Apollo astronauts after beating defense contractors to the job ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today awarded three artist grants intended to support ...

The discovery, ... Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky meteorites originating from within our solar system ...

The first order of doing anything in space is, of course, to get there. Unfortunately, most games in this otherwise splendid list make the rather wild assumption that rocket science isn’t all ...