NASA

Researchers speculate strange ‘puffball-like’ rocks on Mars could be fungi

Researchers speculate strange ‘puffball-like’ rocks on Mars could be fungi

Kaelan Deese · May 7, 2021 12:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, May 29, 2014, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, introduces the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship at the SpaceX headquarters on, in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Motors is opening access to its patents to accelerate electric vehicle development. Musk says the company will share several hundred patents and won't sue those who use them. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

By choosing SpaceX, NASA proves it is serious about returning to the moon

Mark Whittington · May 4, 2021 4:00 am

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

SpaceX Crew-1 lands in Gulf of Mexico following record mission for NASA

Kaelan Deese · May 3, 2021 6:32 pm

Magazine - Obituary

Michael Collins, 1930-2021

Nathan Wurtzel · April 30, 2021 3:00 am

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90

Jeremy Beaman · April 28, 2021 4:52 pm

SpaceX capsule’s near crash with debris was a ‘reporting error,’ spokeswoman says

Jake Dima · April 26, 2021 4:12 pm

SpaceX launches rocket carrying astronauts to the International Space Station

Mike Brest · April 23, 2021 12:23 pm

NASA deputy administrator Lori B. Garver, left, looks at the tiles on the space shuttle Atlantis with STS-132 commander Ken Ham, center, and mission specialist Michael Good after the orbiter landed safely on Kennedy Space Center's runway 33 Wednesday, May 26, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

NASA is neither parochial nor patriarchal

Mark Whittington · April 21, 2021 4:00 am

NASA’s Mars helicopter becomes first successful flight on another planet

Mike Brest · April 19, 2021 12:13 pm

A temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors who have entered the country illegally is seen at Lackland Air Force Base, Monday, June 23, 2014, in San Antonio. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep Michael Bachmann, and Attorney Gen. and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott toured the facility Monday. Cruz and Abbott are ramping up criticism of President Barack Obama for more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors who have poured across the southwestern border of the U.S. in recent months. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

National Security

HHS asks NASA employees to help unaccompanied migrant children

Abraham Mahshie · April 8, 2021 4:51 pm

In this image provided by NASA, this false-color Voyager picture of Uranus shows a discrete cloud seen a bright streak near the planet's limb. (AP Photo/NASA)

Scientists discover X-rays emitting from Uranus

Kaelan Deese · April 1, 2021 7:00 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, March 26, 2013 file photo provided by NASA shows the release of the SpaceX Dragon-2 spacecraft from the International Space Station. A delayed supply run to the International Space Station is now set to launch April 14, 2014. The private company SpaceX will be making its fourth trip to the space station from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch was postponed twice in March, the last time because of an electrical short on Air Force ground equipment. NASA announced the new launch date on Friday, April 4, 2014. The moon is at background center. (AP Photo/NASA)

Beltway Confidential

Avoiding celestial traffic jams

Alexander Salter · March 22, 2021 1:00 pm