SpaceX blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion that destroyed Israel’s Amos-6 satellite in September.
The latest fake news climate story has the winning headline: “Scientists are frantically copying US climate data fearing it might vanish under Trump.”
The passing of John Glenn, one of America’s most famous NASA astronauts, marks the end of an era for American exceptionalism. While many will focus on the scientific miracle that allowed Glenn to become the first American to orbit the earth, Glenn himself noted that God was also an inseparable part of that miracle.
Senator Bernie Sanders has declared war on Breitbart because of its outrageous – if perfectly accurate – report that the world is getting cooler.
NASA’s top climate scientist Gavin Schmidt has warned President-Elect Donald Trump that the planet just won’t stand for having a fully-fledged climate denier in the White House.
Despite criticism from the media about his stance on space policy, President-elect Trump is set to focus NASA mainly on space exploration following his inauguration in January, revealing his interest to “free NASA” from logistics so that they can focus on “space exploration” in a speech last month.
Two American astronauts have already cast their vote in the 2016 US Presidential Election from the International Space Station via electronic absentee ballot.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will officially launch “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species” on Tuesday, September 27, when gives a keynote speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Israel’s Space Communication Ltd said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX’s Florida launch site.
An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.
One of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, the STEREO-B probe, has re-established contact with scientists despite nearly two years of silence after it disconnected in October 2014.
As Americans watched fireworks illuminate the night skies on July 4, NASA’s Juno mission celebrated for another reason: a successful mission to insert a satellite into Jupiter’s orbit.
Jimmy Kimmel is great. Probably the most relaxed, amiable, and funny of all the U.S. talk show hosts, not counting James Corden. But after last night he just lost a fan. No, I’m sure he doesn’t care about this either. As he made perfectly
You’ve read about the climate fraud committed ‘on an unbelievable scale’ by the shysters at NASA. You’ve read about how NOAA overestimated US warming by 50 percent. Now it’s NSIDC’s turn to be caught red-handed fiddling the data and cooking the
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams uploaded a photograph of Israel as seen from the International Space Station, writing that he was “fascinated” by the view of “biblical history.”
By cutting future commercial space flight costs by a third with their successful landing of a spent first-stage vehicle on a barge in the Atlantic, SpaceX just ignited an economic space boom that will be the defining feature of the
Videos taken by two amateur astronomers in mid-March show a meteor strike on the rings of Jupiter that could have been a planetary extinction event if an object of similar size hit Earth.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Launch control software under development for NASA’s deep-space exploration program is more than a year behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars above projected costs, according to an internal audit released Monday.
The hip-hopification of Obama’s presidency reached new heights Monday when Broadway’s Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda joined the president in the Rose Garden and performed a rap song about random civic terminology.
The Independent reports: The Middle East has just experienced its worst drought in more than 900 years, a Nasa report has found. Scientists said that a 15-year dry spell in the eastern Mediterranean, which ended in 2012 and is thought to be
A Johnson Space Center (JSC) Christian club has had it’s e-mail announcement of a club meeting censored by lawyers for NASA because it included the word “Jesus” in it. The Liberty Institute sent NASA a demand letter this week threatening to file a federal lawsuit.
As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday.
The Jerusalem Post reports: In space, nobody can hear you scream, but in 2016 they will be able to see you laugh. Israeli concept artist Eyal Gever is working with NASA on a project called #Laugh, which will be the
Over the next few days and weeks you will hear lots and lots of stories about how 2015 was the “Hottest Year Evah”. Every time you do so, reach for your Browning. Whoever makes this claim will be an idiot,
A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change
NASA cut short a spacewalk on Friday at the International Space Station after one of the astronauts reported a leak in his spacesuit helmet, the U.S. space agency said. Tim Peake, who on the mission became the first astronaut from
Another week, another study showing that our official climate data gatekeepers have been exaggerating the extent of “global warming”
On December 14, NASA will start taking applications for its next class of astronauts. It’s possible that some of the astronauts will go to Mars, or at least be considered for future Mars missions.
Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest study from NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels, the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year. The study – by an organization not hitherto noted
A report released by NASA this week indicated that the amount of farmland in California left idle has more than doubled in just four years due to the state’s punishing drought.
“Apollo 13” meets “Interstellar” in director Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” and the result is a blockbuster piece of entertainment that matches both. Matt Damon has never been more likable as Mark Watney, an American astronaut and botanist who, in a
Keep in mind that NASA’s big announcement is NOT that water has been found on Mars. The news is that NASA has found only SIGNS of water on Mars. And now, probably by accident, “Martian” director Ridley Scott has confirmed
NASA’s Monday announcement that Mars appears to have flowing streams of salty water might not be a cosmic conspiracy to boost ticket sales, as some have asserted on social media, but the possible finding is good news for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation last week aimed at protecting privacy by banning drones from flying within 350 feet above a property without the owner’s consent.
The FBI is investigating an Ohio State University professor who disappeared and may have given defense secrets to the Chinese government.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released new research revealing that huge swaths of the Central Valley are sinking at the rate of up to two inches per month due to accelerating groundwater pumping in the fourth year of the California drought.
But don’t be in a hurry — the instructions point out that after propping up your solar flaps, you have to wait at least 30 minutes for the “oven” to “preheat.” Once the marshmallows are in the oven, the instructions note that it might take up to a full hour for them to melt, plus an additional period of time to melt the chocolate.
Google’s 60-year lease to co-locate with NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, which was signed in November 2014, appears to be paving the way for the formation of a partnership between NASA, Google and Amazon to develop and roll out an automated national air traffic control system for drone flights.
America’s space agency NASA has today unveiled the new findings of the Kepler Space Telescope, taking “one small step in answering” the question of whether the Earth is alone in the universe as an inhabitable planet, in their own words. Kepler
California’s record four-year drought will have little impact on the state’s overall economy, according to credit rating agency Moody’s.
