This will likely come as a surprise to no one who has closely watched the development of NASAs next giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), but its going to be expensive to use. Like, really e… [+4285 chars]
Eugene Parker, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics, is remembered for seminal contributions to the understanding of our sun and solar system Credit: Photo by John Zich/… [+9683 chars]
An investigation into how human nerve cells differ from animal cells has provided researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) with important clues in t… [+4079 chars]
Vanessa Wyche, Director, Johnson Space Center (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) Vanessa Wyche was Deputy Director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center until she was name… [+2679 chars]
If you were born after 1972, you’ve never seen something that was for a brief time in the late 1960s and early 1970s a relatively frequent event: a crewed lunar landing. Apollo 17 was the last such m… [+1195 chars]
The Great Pyramid of Giza might be the most iconic structure humans ever built. Ancient civilizations constructed archaeological icons that are a testament to their greatness and persistence. But in … [+8831 chars]
Chinas Tianwen-1 lander and Zhurong rover touched down on the Martian plain Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021 after spending about three months orbiting the Red Planet. While the Chinese Space Agency h… [+2993 chars]
3D view of the point in Earth’s mantle below Africa, shown in red, yellow, and orange. Cyan represents the main mantle boundary, blue indicates the surface, and transparent gray indicates the contine… [+4008 chars]
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) As program director of NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, Pittsylvania County native Gregory L. Robinson gets to examine the history of the universe.Robinson, a 1978 graduate of Dan… [+5007 chars]
A team of astronomers have reported the first observations of a debris cloud from a collision between two large asteroid-sized bodies. The team used data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to determ… [+1684 chars]
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. Most of the rocky planets and satellit… [+5570 chars]
Most life on Earth can be broadly split into oxygen consumers and oxygen producers. This delicate balance of givers and takers keeps the concentration of oxygen in our planet's atmosphere around 21 … [+3820 chars]
