April 21, 2024 • The Lyrids meteor shower is active until April 29 and is peaking overnight from Sunday into Monday. To see it, it's best to find an area with trees or a mountain blocking out ...

Tracking President Donald Trump's campaign promises: The Trump-O-Meter is PolitiFact's meter for tracking 100 promises President Trump made during his 2016 campaign. (We tracked President Barack ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test ... and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send astronauts into space. On top of the rocket was the Apollo Command and Service Module ...

Space mysteries Astronomers are especially interested in the habitability of these kinds of planets, which always face their star with the same side, because they are incredibly common in the ...

The cylindrical piece of space junk is made of a metallic alloy called Inconel weighing 1.6 pounds (0.7 kg) and measuring 4 inches (10 centimeters ... a 165-foot-tall (50-meter-tall) upper ...

By Kenneth Chang Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time. By Becky Ferreira Scientists may have ...

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

Since the first United States astronaut (Al Shepard) snagged a photo of Earth in May 1961, people in space have delivered four million images to our planet, NASA says. These few hundred people ...

GoPro said it is putting in place a restructuring plan that includes a global workforce cut of about 4% and reducing its office space to save on operating costs. The wearable-camera maker on ...

Using data from various space telescopes and astronomical surveys, Armenian researchers have investigated three star-forming regions. The study identified hundreds of young stellar objects and ...

By Dennis Overbye Threats are mounting in space. GPS signals are vulnerable to attack. Their time-keeping is essential for stock trading, power transmission and more. By Selam Gebrekidan ...