February 21, 2020 Avi Loeb: What's causing mysterious radio bursts in space? Don’t rule out any options yet, including aliens As scientists, we should be humble and not be guided by prejudice but by evidence. After all, if we expect the future to resemble the past we will never discover something new.
February 21, 2020 What should we do if a 'planet-killer' asteroid takes aim at Earth? If a giant object looks like it's going to slam into Earth, humanity has a few options: Hammer it with a spacecraft hard enough to knock it off course, blast it with nuclear weapons, tug on it with a gravity tractor, or even slow it down using concentrated sunlight.
February 20, 2020 5 African-American groundbreakers in the US space program “Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier,” scheduled to air Monday on the Smithsonian Channel, examines the race to get black astronauts into the heavens while fighting for human rights on Earth.
February 20, 2020 Epic NASA photograph shows International Space Station crossing the moon NASA has revealed a gorgeous image of the Moon, Mars and the International Space Station.
February 20, 2020 NASA astronaut Fred Gregory recounts historic missions, eyes America’s space future In 1989 astronaut Fred Gregory made history when he became the first African American to command a NASA mission, but he paid little attention to the headlines that he made.
February 20, 2020 Artificial intelligence spotted 11 'potentially hazardous' asteroids that NASA missed An asteroid hitting Earth is one of humanity's greatest existential threats, making it imperative that asteroid detection is a vital task for government space agencies around the world. Using advanced artificial intelligence, researchers in the Netherlands have discovered several "potentially hazardous objects" that were not spotted by humans.
February 20, 2020 Molecular oxygen discovered in another galaxy for first time ever Astronomers have made a significant discovery, finding molecular oxygen for the first time ever outside the Solar System.
February 20, 2020 Ripples in space-time could explain the mystery of why the universe exists A new study may help answer one of the universe's biggest mysteries: Why is there more matter than antimatter? That answer, in turn, could explain why everything from atoms to black holes exists.
February 19, 2020 NASA astronauts will return to space from US soil 'before summer': Pence NASA astronauts will soon launch into space from U.S. soil for the first time in almost 10 years, vowed Vice President Mike Pence, during a speech Wednesday.
February 17, 2020 Could hackers turn satellites into weapons? Hackers could shut down satellites and potentially turn them into weapons, an expert on cyber conflict warns
