NASA fueled up its giant lunar rocket and completed a launch-day walkthrough on Thursday ahead of its highly anticipated mission to send four astronauts around the moon. The hourslong test, known as a ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

A newly installed citizen science station at Cary's Downtown Park is inviting visitors to become part of a long-term experiment in watching nature change. The installation, called a Chronolog, looks ...

Space scientists have shown off an incredible image of a “space egg.” NASA said Tuesday the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in what’s called the Egg Nebula ...

Citizen scientists in South Africa have rediscovered an emerald-green moth that’s been missing for nearly one-and-a-half centuries. A dozen male moths had their photographs posted online from 2020 to ...

Since after World War II, the military has been involved in space activities, with more than half of astronauts having served in the Armed Forces. Space studies and exploration inspire the future but ...

Narrowband signal detection as a potential indicator of artificial radio emissions. Doppler drift correction to account for relative motion between Earth and distant transmitters. Rigorous filtering ...

Most people wouldn't leave their phones behind when they so much as go for a drive, but NASA astronauts have had to leave their phones on Earth while they went to work 250 miles away at the ...

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two missions NASA selected Feb. 5 for its Earth System Explorer program. Credit: Lanteris Space Systems WASHINGTON — NASA has selected two Earth ...

NASA has launched hundreds of missions, but a small number genuinely reshaped how we understand space. These missions did more than reach distant places. They gave scientists entirely new ways to ...

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip to Mars. “Although there’s a few I wouldn’t mind,” he said earning another ...