The First Pinpoint Landing on the Moon
Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona
When Apollo...
Water in space – a ‘Goldilocks’ star reveals previously hidden step...
John Tobin, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the...
Stunning images open the era of the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers...
Studying the effects of microgravity on human cell growth.
Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space?
Alysson R. Muotri, University of California San Diego
Gravity can be a real downer when you are...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape
Karen Fox / Josh Handal JPL NASA
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this 360-degree view on July 3,...
NASA heading back to Mars
NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University
This...
Searching for Super Earths
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there
Chris...
Touching asteroid Ryugu
Touching the asteroid Ryugu revealed secrets of its surface and changing orbit
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
On Feb. 21, 2019, we shot an...
NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
Daniel Apai, University of Arizona and Benjamin Rackham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA's TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to...
SpaceX reaches for milestone in spaceflight
A new era begins as a private company launches astronauts into orbit
On May 27, two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley,...
