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Budweiser barley seeds will be studied on the International Space Station to advance the first “Bud on Mars.” Budweiser is sending barley seeds to the International Space Station to advance its bid to be the first beer on Mars. Anheuser-Busch, the brewing company behind the “Great American Lager,” announced on Tuesday (Nov. 21) details about […]

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings on Sept. 13, 2017, two days before the spacecraft’s dramatic plunge into the planet’s atmosphere. The Cassini spacecraft’s farewell photo of Saturn is something to behold. On Sept. 13 — two days before its intentional death […]

While Americans all over the country will celebrate Thanksgiving with their families, the Expedition 53 crewmembers on the International Space Station will need to stay where they are — in orbit. But the busy crew on the station did find time to reflect on the importance of the holiday, and share some memories of family […]

A view of the Thanksgiving sky at 5 p.m local time. Thanksgiving is often thought of as a time for family and friends to get together — but after the feast has been consumed, what’s next on the agenda? A time to reflect on one’s many blessings?  Certainly.  A visual feast of football enjoyed from […]

A tiny slowdown in Earth’s rotation next year could trigger more earthquakes than usual, new research suggests. Past periods of slow rotation over the last 100 years have coincided with more earthquakes than average, according to research presented last month at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “The numbers of earthquakes that […]

The Stratolaunch aircraft is rolled out of its hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for the first time May 31. As that plane undergoes testing, the company is also making plans to test a rocket engine that could be used for a launch vehicle carried by the plane. WASHINGTON — An […]

An enormous storm on Jupiter appears in a striking new image from the Juno spacecraft, taken when Juno was 6,281 miles (10,108 km) from the planet’s cloud tops. The image scale is 4.2 miles/pixel (6.7 km/pixel). NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a spectacular view of a monstrous Jupiter storm that resembles the swirling pastel clouds of […]

James E. Webb was NASA administrator from 1961 to 1968. He oversaw the Gemini program, the beginning of the Apollo program, and the development of Cape Kennedy and the Johnson Space Center. In 2019, a massive telescope will launch from the Earth, providing an in-depth view of space and bringing into focus objects older and […]

This artist’s impression shows the distant dwarf planet Eris in the distance with its moon Dysmonia in the foreground. New observations have shown that Eris is smaller than previously thought and almost exactly the same size as Pluto. Eris is extremely reflective and its surface is probably covered in frost formed from the frozen remains […]

NASA Headquarters is at Two Independence Square in Washington, D.C. NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., houses the higher-ups responsible for charting the space agency’s course and implementing its vision. For the record, that vision is: “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.” […]

SpaceX is developing its BFR reusable rocket and BFS reusable spacecraft, for which the company expects to receive some financial support from U.S. government agencies like the Air Force. LUXEMBOURG CITY — The president of SpaceX said she expects the company would receive additional funding from the U.S. government  to support the development of its large […]

A gorgeous video shows off a weather model from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) uses data from NASA satellites and computer models to track three aerosols in the atmosphere — smoke, sea salt and dust — giving a different color to each. Although often conflated with pollution, an aerosol […]

Protons and neutrons at the center of an atom would break down into their component quarks in a small enough field of view — here, a nucleus is visualized at 10^-15 meters. A new book by astrophysicist Caleb Scharf, “The Zoomable Universe” (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), takes readers all the way from the […]