Here’s how it works. On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named ...

Astronomers had never seen anything like it before – something vast, in the depths of space, went boom. Telescopes on Earth picked up the astonishingly bright and unusual explosion in 2018 ...

May 2, 2025 — Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now ...

An updated rotation period of Uranus of 17.247864 ± 0.000010 h is derived from long-term Hubble Space Telescope images of its ultraviolet aurorae. The high accuracy of this value yields a ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Are you ready to take your innovative space ideas to the next frontier? The 2025 RunSpace invites students, professionals, startups, and researchers from around ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the ...

For the second time in two months, Maintainer training manager Milt McPike was able to show off the Sheldon manufacturer’s new training facility to an elected official. Iowa attorney general Brenna ...

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Key programs on the chopping block include the Mars Sample Return mission-intended to bring back samples collected by the Perseverance rover-and the cancellation of the Lunar Gateway, a planned space ...

She will be dearly missed by all who knew her. The Air & Space Lawyer is now available electronically. Read the issue online or download the PDF version. This publication is a benefit of Forum ...