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It survived a hurricane and is now off to earthquake territory: The James Webb Space Telescope has come out of its deep freeze and will soon leave Houston to unite with its sun shield and spacecraft bus in California to prepare for a 2019 launch. NASA officials updated media on the megatelescope’s status and described […]

An artist’s impression of the Greenbank Telescope in West Virginia receiving signals from fast radio burst FRB 121102. The object was observed by the Breakthrough Listen project. Repeating bursts of radio waves coming from a distant dwarf galaxy probably aren’t signals from an extraterrestrial civilization, but that hasn’t stopped a group of E.T. hunters from […]

An artist’s illustration of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. The first test flights will launch between August and December in 2018. WASHINGTON — SpaceX has delayed its two commercial crew test flights by four months, according to a new NASA schedule released Jan. 11 , raising questions about whether it or Boeing will be able to send […]

“We are lacking an experience by operation of recovering a vehicle and reflying it. This is exactly what we would like to do with Callisto,” — Jean-Marc Astorg, head of Launch Vehicles Directorate, CNES. WASHINGTON — Reusable rocketry in Europe took a step forward last year with a funding boost for Prometheus, a program meant […]

This image shows an artist’s rendering of the inner regions of a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole at the center. As the disk of gas and dust falls into the black hole, the high temperatures create light. Differences in this light can help astronomers measure the black hole’s mass. Monster black holes hide […]

Neil Armstrong sits in the lunar module after a historic moonwalk. Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut most famous for being the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969. An accomplished test pilot, Armstrong also flew on the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. He retired from NASA in 1971 and remained […]

Earthshine illuminates the dark portion of the crescent moon in this photo taken at the Castle of Mértola in Portugal’s Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve during the week before Christmas. Miguel Claro is a Lisbon, Portugal-based professional photographer, author and science communicator who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory photo […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government launches Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Jan. 7, 2018 in this still from a SpaceX video. UPDATE: ABC News reported  Tuesday evening (Jan. 9) that Zuma plummeted into the Indian Ocean. The ABC News report […]

The Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge uses Rocket and Groot as inspiration for student space science experiments on the International Space Station. Two of the Guardians of the Galaxy are crossing over to the real space station to engage teens in science. Rocket and Groot, characters from the Marvel comic book franchise, are […]

LAS VEGAS, NV —Merge wants to introduce your kids to VR. The company announced the Merge Mini, a smaller version of its lightweight smartphone-based VR headset designed to fit the heads of kids better than previous models. Virtual reality is exciting technology and every day, more and more people are experiencing its magic for the […]

There are a lot of STEM toys that teach kids the joys of programming by having them build and control a robot. The Kano Camera Kit takes a different approach, providing children as young as six with the pieces to build a 5-MP camera, which they can then program. Due out in 2019 for an […]

LAS VEGAS — There are scores of robots designed to teach kids coding skills, but most are either targeted toward young children with limited programming experience, or older kids whose skills are more advanced. Available in June for $199, Root is designed to help people of all ages —starting as young as age four, but […]

John Young (left) and Gus Grissom flew on the first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini 3, on March 23, 1965. Here, they’re shown in the spacecraft simulator at the McDonnell plant in St. Louis. One additional “passenger” on the real flight was a corned-beef sandwich that Young smuggled aboard in his pocket. While John Young, who […]