Tag Archives: Outer Space

The Inside Story of the First Untethered Spacewalk

The first space shuttle mission of 1984, the launch of Challengeron the cool, windless morning [...]

Life in the Cosmos

The Search for Life SMART NEWS See the Messages NASA Will Send to Space on [...]

Astrophysicist Mario Livio on the Intersection of Art and Science

Mario Livio is an astrophysicist and author who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for over two decades. Born in [...]

Why Theoretical Physicist Sylvester James Gates Sees No Conflict Between Science and Religion

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What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission

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Future of Space Exploration

Space Travel SMART NEWS See NASA’s Initial Moon Buggy Concepts, Expected on the Moon by [...]

Meet the Global Team That Captured the First Image of a Black Hole

From time to time, a new picture of outer space changes our understanding of the [...]

Ten Celestial Events You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020

Every year, meteor showers dazzle viewers, eclipses reveal the orbital balance of our planet with [...]

Spitzer’s 16 Years of Scanning the Cosmos

Robert Hurt, a visualization scientist working for the Spitzer Space Center, is taking the decommission [...]

Ten Celestial Events to Look Forward to in 2021

In 2020, astronomers observed Comet Neowise streak through the sparkling night sky, a total solar [...]

What to Know Before Perseverance Lands on Mars

Since it launched on July 30 last year, a rocket bearing NASA’s Perseverance Rover has [...]

Exploring Mars

Featured Story SCIENCE Inside NASA’s Elaborate Effort to Bring Rocks From Mars to Earth The [...]

Perseverance Kicks Off Elaborate Effort to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth

The Perseverance Rover is about to gather a rock collection with no equal. On February [...]

The Wonder of Avi Loeb

Abraham Loeb knows how improbable it is that he’s here. First, there had to be [...]

Five Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Rover ‘VIPER’

The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover dubbed VIPER is headed to the moon’s south pole [...]