NASA opens Katherine Johnson building at Langley Research Center
On Friday, NASA honored Katherine Johnson’s contributions to space exploration with the inauguration of a new building in her name at the Langley Research...
Hubble spots light-eating exoplanet WASP-12b
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the exoplanet WASP-12b on Thursday to calculate how much light it reflects back into space. The Hot Jupiter is...
Pence chooses to go to the moon again
At the first meeting of the reinstated National Space Council (NSC) on Thursday, Vice-President Mike Pence said the United States will send astronauts to...
SpaceX Calls Off Launch of 143 Satellites Due to Bad Weather...
Bad weather led to the cancellation of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 143 satellites from being launched over the weekend. SpaceX...
Asteroid 2014 JO25 will safely fly by Earth on April 19
Space agencies and astronomers around the world will set their sights on the night sky on Wednesday, April 19, as Asteroid 2014 JO25 safely...
This Lithium-Ion battery has a built in fire extinguisher
A research team from Stanford University released a document detailing their experiments with the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (or TPP). They plan to include...
New Horizons discovers clouds in Pluto, aims at next target
The New Frontiers program keeps finding new things in our cosmos. NASA scientists have received a new batch of data from the New Horizons...
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 could reenter Earth on April Fool’s
According to the European Space Agency, the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1 will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere sometime between March 30 and April...
Scientists from Tennessee transform CO2 into ethanol by accident
A team of specialists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee recently discovered a method to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol. The...
Researches reveal the most advanced map of the Milky Way yet
Australian and German scientist produced a new, detailed map of the Milky Way, dubbed H14P1. The researchers used two of the world’s largest telescopes...