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Indian women scientists’ lunar mission a ‘giant leap for womankind’

Women & Gender

India’s Chandrayaan-2 is expected to land on the moon Friday as the country seeks its first successful landing. But with two female scientists leading the project, the lunar mission has already made history.

A true-color image of Jupiter taken by the Cassini spacecraft. The Galilean moon Europa casts a shadow on the planet's cloud tops.

Exciting new ideas in space technology are getting short-changed by Congress

Technology
Sheriffs' deputies look at wreckage from the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo near Cantil, California November 2, 2014. A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company crashed during a test flight on Fr

As businesses enter the space race, the need to make a buck leaves questions about safety

Business

A Ukrainian pamphlet claims to demand all Jews register with authorities. But is it real?

Global Scan

A Ukrainian pamphlet claims to demand all Jews register with authorities. But is it real?

Global Scan

NASA shares a family portrait of the inner solar system, starring Saturn

Environment

It’s hard to fathom our place in the solar system, until you look at a picture of Earth taken from near Saturn. NASA just released this composite photo, snapped by the Cassini space probe in July. Earth, Venus and Mars are all visible, but just pinpricks of light.

NASA’s Voyager Now First Human-Made Object to Leave the Solar System

Elvis has finally left the building. In 1977, a little spacecraft named Voyager 1 was launched, leaving our world for a long journey.  Voyager is NASA’s little Elvis–and now it has finally left the Solar System. In doing so, the spacecraft has become the first human-made object to reach interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is […]

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Will Never Search for Planets Again

The question of whether there is life in our galaxy may have already been answered by a spacecraft called Kepler, which was named for the man who calculated how the planets in our solar system move. According to NASA, the Kepler Spacecraft a has identified and calculated the movements of more than 3,500 possible planets, […]

NASA’s outreach efforts around rover landings capture new attention

Environment

Among the most popular videos on YouTube in 2012 there was music, an angry dad and even a guy jumping out of a space capsule. But among the hits, was an 11-minute, animated depiction of what it was like for the Mars Curiosity rover to land on Mars.

‘Mohawk guy’ becomes the new face of NASA

Environment

Bobak Ferdowsi is young, good looking and sports a stars-and-stripes Mohawk. He’s also the flight director for NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover. That Ferdowki doesn’t look like your typical rocket scientist is what made him an overnight Internet sensation, and the new face of the U.S. space program.