Here's how Cedar Rapids' West Willow Elementary School teacher Sara Yedlik, chosen for a highly competitive national program ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

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Uranium is a story of duality. It is a mineral pulled from ancient rocks that can light up a city or wipe one off the map. It’s not just a relic of the Cold War or science fiction. It’s real, it’s ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the only way our planet could meet its demise. A new simulation points to ...

However, broader funding reductions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, from US$7.3 billion (£5.4 billion) to US$3.9 billion (£2.9 billion), may limit the scope of future projects and the ...

UPDATE 05/12/25 8:50AM: Russian space agency Roscosmos has confirmed Kosmos 482 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 2:24AM on May 10 before harmlessly splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of ...

April 20 (UPI) -- Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed ...

Using groundbreaking data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have captured a planet's final moments as it spirals into its star—and Earth is next. Discover the terrifying physics ...