Space

Canada aims to provide medical technologies for deep space exploration

5:10am June 16, 2022

by Joe Palca

Twenty teams in Canada received small grants to develop portable medical tools that could be used on long interplanetary space flights. They could also be useful in remote parts of Canada.

A new report finds 'shortfalls' in how Trump decided to move U.S. Space Command

5:32pm June 13, 2022

by Dan Boyce

President Trump moved U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. The Government Accountability Office now says the decision had "significant shortfalls."

A supermoon rises over Washington, D.C., in November 2016. After this week's Strawberry Supermoon, there will be two more in July and August.

National

A strawberry supermoon will rise on Tuesday. Here's how to watch

9:00am June 13, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon.

The Mars Perseverance Rover has a pet rock

1:21pm June 08, 2022

A few months ago, a rock the size of a potato got stuck in the Rover's front left wheel and has been along for the ride for more than five miles.

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An illustration of the view at dawn on June 3 and 4.

Science

Grab your binoculars: 5 planets are lined up nicely for you to see at dawn this month

2:15pm June 03, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout June. The last time this happened was in 2004.

Marcia Belsky performs at SESSION 2 at TEDWomen 2021: What Now? December 1-3, 2021, Palm Springs, California. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

Health & Safety

Marcia Belsky: That time when NASA (almost) sent Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons

9:25am June 03, 2022

Ahead of her 1983 space flight, NASA suggested sending astronaut Sally Ride with 100 tampons for the week-long trip. (That's too many.) In 2020, comedian Marcia Belsky sang a song about it.

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NASA has been studying a planet called 55 Cancri e

6:32am June 01, 2022

The planet is sort of Earth-like but much closer to its star. It has temperatures hot enough to melt and vaporize rocks — and possibly oceans of lava with clouds that rain molten rock.

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 11, 2021 in Spruce Knob, W.Va.

There's a chance of a meteor shower Monday night

5:28pm May 30, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

Those in North America have the best shot at seeing the shower at about 1 a.m. on the East Coast or 10 p.m. on the West Coast.

A bounty of black holes surround the Sagittarius A supermassive black hole which lies at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Science

What does a black hole sound like? NASA has an answer

1:53pm May 28, 2022

NASA began "sonifying" its famous photos of outer space to help people who are visually impaired enjoy the images. Recently, it recreated the sound of a black hole 240 million light-years away.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has technical problems

5:11am May 26, 2022

Scientists and engineers are troubleshooting from 14 billion miles away, with a delay of 20-plus hours each way — trying to fix an antenna control system built 45 years ago.