space
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PublishedJune 29, 2021
Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star
The collision was more than one billion light-years away.
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PublishedJune 25, 2021
Our View: Maine student ‘cubesat’ competition part of growing industry
Middle and high schoolers who created their own mini-satellites will put them to the test this weekend. Future launches are sure to come.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2021
NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
The Perseverance rover will spend the next two years exploring the dry river delta and drilling into rocks that may hold evidence of life.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2021
U.S. billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others
Jared Isaacman says the money raised from the trips will be donated to St. Jude's Research Hospital.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2020
Commentary: Phosphine stinks. But its discovery in Venus’ clouds lifts my heart
If this is what we hope it is – a potential sign of life – it means that life is common, and tenacity is cosmic.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2020
Two black holes merged into a size astronomers have never before seen
The first ever discovered intermediate black hole, which is 142 times the mass of the sun, formed in a violent collision about 7 billion years ago.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2020
Three countries, including U.S., sending spacecrafts to Mars
This will be the United Arab Emirates' first attempt and China's second.
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PublishedMay 30, 2020
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launches first manned test flight to space station
The flight ends a nine-year launch drought for NASA, which retired the space shuttle in 2011.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2020
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon in 1971, dies at age 88
Once his crewmates were back on board and headed home after testing a lunar rover, Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk – nearly 200,000 miles from Earth.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2020
Space Force war funds request marks budgetary 1st
The $77 million would go to maintaining and defending key satellites from adversary efforts.
