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This Is NASA's New Plan to Detect and Destroy Asteroids Before They Hit Earth

June 21, 2018 | Article

NASA has updated its plans to deflect potentially hazardous Earth-bound asteroids — and none of them involve Bruce Willis.
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Russia Wants to Blast Space Junk with Laser Cannon

June 14, 2018 | Article

Russia's space agency is developing a novel method for dealing with space junk: vaporizing it with lasers.
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'Lost' NASA Tapes Show Humans Sort of Caused Global Warming on the Moon Too

June 13, 2018 | Article

Why did the moon see a sudden temperature spike in the '70s? Blame astronaut footprints.
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Confused Baby Falcon Rescued from Inside Balloon Telescope

June 12, 2018 | Article

When the baby bird invaded the telescope scientists scrambled to make sure it wouldn't damage sensitive optics (or hurt itself).
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NASA Satellites Make Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space Near Earth

June 10, 2018 | Article

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft has detected magnetic activity occurring in a new and surprising way in the environment of near-Earth space.
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There May Be Life on Mars, But This NASA Report Doesn't Prove It

June 07, 2018 | Article

NASA did find two more scraps of evidence about the kind of life that might exist on Mars. Here's what the new research really shows.
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Antarctica's Largest Iceberg Is About to Die ... Near the Equator

June 07, 2018 | Article

Antarctica's iceberg B-15 will finally melt in the South Atlantic Ocean. Farewell, friend. It's been a crazy, 18-year ride.
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Why Cosmonauts Pee on the Bus That Picks Them Up for Launches

June 06, 2018 | Article

Every time that space crews launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they literally follow in the footsteps of the first human in space – Yuri Gagarin.
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Why Is NOAA's Brand-New, Billion-Dollar Weather Satellite Going Blind?

May 24, 2018 | Article

NOAA's GOES-17 was supposed to watch for deadly storms and dust clouds in the Western Hemisphere. Instead, it's spending half the day blind.
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Sally Ride Is Getting Her Own Forever Stamp

May 22, 2018 | Article

Physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and the first astronaut to come out as having a same-sex partner, will have her likeness on a stamp.
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