NASA Awards Contract for Airborne Science Flight Services Support

NASA has awarded Dynamic Aviation Group Inc. of Bridgewater, Virginia, the Commercial Aviation Services contract to…

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Seeds survive space Researchers found that plant seeds exposed to space germinated at the same rate…

SETI Researchers Double-Checked 1 Million Objects for Signs of Alien Signals

We can’t help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the Universe. Any hint of a…

Stacking Artemis II – NASA

Engineers and technicians with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program prepare to lift the left center center…

White Dwarfs Pause Their Cooling, Giving Planets a Second Chance for Habitability

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers planetary defense procedures

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gained attention due to its considerable size, estimated between 40 and 100…

How to spot Bode’s galaxy this month

M81 or Bode’s galaxy Alf Jacob Nilsen/Alamy There is something about seeing our home from a…

These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impractical

While researching Starbound, my new book on the realities of interstellar travel, I was often surprised…

Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system’s strangest object

Walter Myers/Science Photo Library Next to Earth, Mars may be the most-studied world in our solar…

60 days in bed for science

A group of volunteers is spending two months lying in bed—with their feet up and one…