Space – Page 82 of 93

Mar 4, 2016, 1:00 PM

Clouds on Pluto? Pictures from NASA’s New Horizons probe spark discussion

Even before NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, scientists thought they might see clouds in its thin atmosphere – and… Read More

Mar 4, 2016, 10:27 AM

Aliens and cheeseburgers: Astronaut answers questions from 5-year-olds about life in space

How do you know when to get up in space? And what do you eat? Kindergartners got answers to these… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 6:38 PM

Why methane snow covers Pluto’s peaks

The dark terrain informally known as Cthulhu Regio sweeps nearly halfway around Pluto’s equator, with light-colored peaks sticking up from… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 1:29 PM

J.J. Abrams’ ‘Moon Shot’ online documentary series focuses on Google Lunar X Prize

Film director/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, “Star Trek” and “Star Wars”… Read More

Mar 3, 2016, 10:58 AM

Far out! Hubble astronomers set record for spotting most distant galaxy (again)

Like the rockers in “This Is Spinal Tap,” astronomers cranked the dials on the Hubble Space Telescope up to 11… Read More

Mar 1, 2016, 9:16 PM

Thumbs up! Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after year in space

Capping off a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly breathed earthly air for the first time in 340 days… Read More

Mar 1, 2016, 10:57 AM

How to do a reality check on the search for life beyond our solar system

The past decade has brought about a revolution in astronomers’ ability to detect potentially habitable planets, and there’s much, much… Read More

Feb 29, 2016, 10:14 PM

Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines

Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force… Read More

Feb 29, 2016, 1:35 PM

Want a career in aerospace? Study computer science, job forecast for Seattle region suggests

The most reliable way to break into the aerospace industry of tomorrow is to learn computer science today. That’s one of… Read More

Feb 28, 2016, 7:23 PM

Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second

A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm forced SpaceX to abort what might have been… Read More

Feb 26, 2016, 5:41 PM

Pluto’s polar canyons get their close-up

The heart-shaped region along Pluto’s equator has been the darling of NASA’s New Horizons mission, but it’s the north polar… Read More

Feb 25, 2016, 8:21 PM

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly: I could spend another year in space, but I’m ready to come home

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is getting ready to come home after spending a longer stretch in orbit than any other American in… Read More

Feb 25, 2016, 3:50 PM

SpaceX holds up on SES-9 satellite launch (and rocket landing) just before liftoff

For the second day in a row, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the SES-9 telecommunications satellite as well as the… Read More

Feb 23, 2016, 2:37 PM

Ape … in … space! Watch Scott Kelly’s primo prank on International Space Station

Leave it to Scott Kelly, NASA’s record-holder for longest continuous time spent in space, to go big and go home:… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 8:56 PM

Get in touch with the stratosphere through Microsoft’s Pegasus II balloon mission

How high can the Internet of Things go? Microsoft Research plans to extend the IoT into the stratosphere with its… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 6:29 PM

Moon stamps make a full-moon debut

Now you can moon your mail carrier … not in the scatological sense, but in the philatelic sense. To celebrate… Read More

Feb 22, 2016, 5:25 PM

Apollo 10’s moon music mystery revisited

Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10’s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from?… Read More

Feb 20, 2016, 12:09 PM

18,300 applicants face 1-in-2,000 chance of being picked for astronaut job at NASA

You think it’s hard to get into Harvard? Try making an impression when you’re among the record-high group of 18,300 people… Read More

Feb 20, 2016, 9:53 AM

HoloLens in space: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly dons Microsoft’s holographic headset

Microsoft this morning posted an initial picture of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wearing the company’s HoloLens holographic headset on the International… Read More

Feb 19, 2016, 3:25 PM

VSS Unity: Virgin Galactic christens a reborn SpaceShipTwo, with assist from Stephen Hawking

MOJAVE, Calif. – Sixteen months after Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was lost amid tragedy, the second SpaceShipTwo was christened… Read More

Feb 19, 2016, 10:44 AM

New Horizons imagery backs up the claim that Charon, Pluto’s biggest moon, once had an ocean

Scientists say the patterns of ice in canyons on Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, look as if some the frozen water was… Read More

Feb 16, 2016, 5:20 PM

First spectral analysis of a super-Earth’s atmosphere shows it’s not super for life

For the first time, astronomers have conducted a spectral analysis of a distant super-Earth’s atmosphere – and the results show… Read More

Feb 12, 2016, 3:20 PM

Scientists dissect Pluto’s heart, for geology’s sake

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the scientists behind NASA’s New Horizons mission are sharing a map that brings a different perspective… Read More

Feb 11, 2016, 2:22 PM

Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all

HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but… Read More

Feb 11, 2016, 8:44 AM

Gravitational waves found! LIGO experiment watches two black holes smash together

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a decade of looking, scientists say they’ve detected the gravitational waves given off when two… Read More

Feb 10, 2016, 4:30 AM

Spaceflight’s online price list makes it easier for the feds to buy a launch

Federal agencies can now buy a satellite launch as easily as they buy pencils, thanks to a new arrangement with… Read More

Feb 9, 2016, 9:45 AM

NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budget

Christmas has come and gone, and so has a bump in NASA’s spending plan: The agency’s proposed $19 billion budget… Read More

Feb 8, 2016, 6:17 PM

Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest

It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first… Read More

Feb 8, 2016, 2:02 PM

Killed by a meteorite? Indian bus driver V. Kamaraj’s death may be a first

Death by meteorite is a common theme in science-fiction movies, but in real life, the chances of being done in by a falling… Read More

Feb 7, 2016, 10:57 AM

Why haven’t we found aliens? Here’s the bad news, and the good news

It’s a question that goes back decades: If other civilizations have arisen beyond Earth over the course of billions of… Read More