Category: Science
What we now know about near-Earth asteroid ‘Bennu’
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu, only slightly wider than the height of the Empire State Building, may contain unaltered material from the very beginning of our solar system.
‘Mission complete’ as NASA loses communication with Mars Rover after 15 years
Launched into space back in 2004, NASA’s Opportunity Rover was only designed to function for about 90 days. Instead, the exploratory robot roamed the Red Planet for more than 15 […]
Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia: NASA honors those we’ve lost
Feb. 7 – ‘Day of Remembrance’ – NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes
Expedition 57 crew returns to Earth following 197-day space mission
Yesterday, our favorite American space agency released word that three members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 57 crew, including NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, returned to Earth Thursday, safely landing at […]
NASA’s InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to study planet’s deep interior
Today, Mars received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, […]
Amazon launches childhood-to-career program to inspire underprivileged youth to build careers in computer science
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available – but only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for […]
After 11 years, NASA’s Dawn Mission runs out of gas around dwarf planet Ceres
On November 1, NASA reported that the space agency’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed […]
Chelsea Davies named Harford County Public Schools’ Presidential Award finalist
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) are the highest honors bestowed by the United States government specifically for K-12 mathematics and science teaching. Chelsea Davies, […]
Space Station crew recovered following rocket launch failure (video)
At 7:52 a.m. this morning, NASA released a statement concerning Thursday’s Soyuz MS-10 launch headed to the International Space Station: “The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]
NASA may have discovered first moon outside our solar system ever found
NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. On October 3, NASA reported that […]
