January 26, 2017 NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire NASA on Thursday gave visitors at Kennedy Space Center a glimpse at one of it's most historic -- and tragic -- artifacts: the hatch door of the infamous Apollo 1 spacecraft.
January 26, 2017 Saturn's moon sparks 'Death Star' comparisons This week NASA released an image of Saturn’s icy moon Tethys. The Twitterverse responded by comparing the heavenly body to the Death Star from “Star Wars”.
January 25, 2017 New satellite sends 'jaw-dropping' images of Earth GOES-16, the fancy new satellite developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is sending its first photos back to Earth since it lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 19, and the high-res results are causing astronomers and meteorologists to squeal with delight.
January 19, 2017 NASA study paving way for human travel to Mars A group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars.
January 17, 2017 Eugene Cernan: A life in pictures Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died on Jan. 16, 2017. These pictures document his role in the Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 missions.
January 15, 2017 SpaceX completes first successful launch since explosion A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company's first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago.
January 13, 2017 NASA suspends ties with Russian gov't officials over ongoing crisis in Crimea NASA has suspended contact with Russian government representatives, citing ongoing violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to an internal letter written by a top official on Wednesday.
January 13, 2017 Tempers flare on Capitol Hill as Elon Musk fights for US space bucks It wasn't rockets that flared at the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense in Washington D.C. today.
January 13, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft to become fastest man-made object as it slingshots around Earth towards Jupiter At 3:21 pm (EDT), NASA'S Mission Juno spacecraft will slingshot around Earth towards Jupiter picking up speed to become the fastest man-made object in history.
January 13, 2017 Could dark streaks in Venus' clouds be signs of alien life? The question of life on Venus, of all places, is intriguing enough that a team of U.S. and Russian scientists working on a proposal for a new mission to the second planet — named Venera-D — are considering including the search for life in its mission goals.
