Spaceflight
Director Alfonso Cuarón's visually stunning film "Gravity," in theaters yesterday, is already being heralded as one of the year's best movies. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney...
Mars
NASA's next Mars probe should get off the ground on time, no matter how long the government shutdown lasts.
Planets
As our telescopes become ever more powerful, writes science journalist Lee Billings, the universe appears to be receding before humanity’s outstretched hands, while the...
Mars
The surface of ancient Mars may have been rocked repeatedly by giant supervolcanoes, which unleashed colossal and explosive eruptions that forever changed the face of the Red...
Planets
Scientists have created the first-ever cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system.
Planets
For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system: Saturn's largest Titan.
Spaceflight
Thanks to a chance meeting at a wine packaging facility, Sandra Bullock’s brother-in-law and the sister of Dr. Catherine Coleman, Bullock was able to get advice on how to...
nasa
National parks were not exempt from the government shutdown but that does not mean you can't 'visit' the nation's greatest treasures while politicians continue to work things...
Air & Space
NASA is among those federal government agencies that will experience a near total closure Tuesday as the threatened government shutdown became reality Oct. 1. But a government...
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