NASA manager casts doubt on moon landing by astronauts by 2024 deadline set by Trump
A top NASA manager is casting doubt on the space agency's ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. Kenneth Bowersox, acting associate administrator for human exploration, told a congressional subcommittee Wednesday that NASA is doing its best to meet the White House-imposed deadline. ...
Brad Pitt asks ISS astronaut: Who was better? George Clooney or me?
Brad Pitt, star of the new space movie "Ad Astra," had a burning question for a real-life astronaut. "Who was more believable? Clooney or Pitt?" In a televised call Monday, NASA astronaut Nick Hague answered Pitt — "absolutely" — getting a big laugh. Pitt's Hollywood pal ...
Team behind world's first black hole image wins 'Oscar of science'
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million for what is known as the "Oscars of science." The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration grabbed global headlines ...
Africa is the 'fire continent' but blazes differ from Amazon's
As the world has watched with fear and fascination the fires burning in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, satellite images show a far greater number of blazes on the African continent. NASA has called Africa the "fire continent" that's home to at least 70 percent of the ...
Russian humanoid robot Fedor boards space station after delay
It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend. "Sorry for the delay. Got stuck in traffic. Am ready to carry on with work," the ...
NASA investigating what may be first crime committed in space: report
NASA is investigating what may be the first crime committed in outer space. Astronaut Anne McClain is accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on a sixth-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), The New York Times ...
Asteroid images from probe dropped off by Hayabusa offer clues on planet formation
Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition — insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system. The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's ...
On Greenland's giant vanishing Helheim Glacier, scientists gauge world's watery future
Greenland is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise. New York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what is happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it "the end of the ...
Planet 10 times Earth's mass may have smacked Jupiter long ago
Jupiter may have been smacked head-on by an embryonic planet 10 times Earth's mass not long after being formed — a monumental crash with apparent lasting effects on the Jovian core, scientists said on Thursday. The violent collision, hypothesized by astronomers to explain data collected ...
NASA flights over Greenland investigate threat from melting ice
The fields of rippling ice below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as 15-story buildings. Like nearly every other glacier on Greenland, the massive Kangerlussuaq is ...
'Goldilocks': Potentially habitable planet found in new solar system
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new solar system with a planet that could be habitable, a Spanish astrophysicist who led the research said Thursday. Three new planets were discovered orbiting GJ 357, a red dwarf — a small and cooling star — ...
The 2012 death of Neil Armstrong and a hospital's $6 million secret
When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, it was officially put down to complications arising from heart surgery. But seven years on, more murky circumstances have come to light. The New York Times said Tuesday it had received by mail 93 pages of documents revealing a ...
