Space

Boeing will try again to launch Starliner after its previous attempt was scrubbed

5:11am May 19, 2022

by Brendan Byrne

Boeing hopes to launch its Starliner capsule to the International Space Station. If this test is successful, Boeing hopes to begin sending humans to the space station this fall.

Researchers Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul.

Scientists successfully grow plants in soil from the moon

9:25am May 14, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The study makes use of lunar soil samples collected from Apollo 11, 12 and 17.

A mural of Elon Musk in downtown Brownsville by Alexander Gonzalez-Hernandez.

Housing costs skyrocket as SpaceX expands in Texas city

11:34am May 13, 2022

by Gaige Davila | TPR

SpaceX plans to launch rockets near Brownsville, Texas, and send the first person to Mars from there. Seven years after breaking ground, residents say the only thing skyrocketing is housing prices.

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In thimble-sized pots, researchers wanted to see if the moon could grow food

6:28am May 13, 2022

Decades ago, Apollo astronauts gathered hundreds of pounds of lunar rocks and dirt. Last year, NASA loaned scientists at the University of Florida some of the soil, and they sprouted seedlings.

The 1st image of the supermassive black hole at our galactic center

4:43pm May 12, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

The first ever image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy has been released by scientists, who say it shows Albert Einstein was right about gravity.

"It's the dawn of a new era of black hole physics," the Event Horizon Telescope team said as it released the first-ever image of supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

This is the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

11:23am May 12, 2022

by Bill Chappell

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

SpaceX's plans to launch near Brownsville, Texas, have sent house prices sky high

4:27pm May 11, 2022

by Gaige Davila | TPR

SpaceX plans to launch rockets near Brownsville, Texas. Seven years after breaking ground, some residents say the only thing skyrocketing is housing prices.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center early Friday morning. This time exposure image captured the 'space jellyfish" effect of the contrail viewed from Port Canaveral Marine. The white streak on the horizon was caused by

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A 'space jellyfish' soared over Florida, thanks to the SpaceX launch

10:10am May 06, 2022

by Bill Chappell

People who got up early to watch the Falcon 9 rocket's pre-dawn launch were treated to an ethereal spectacle, when a cloud of illuminated gases moved across the sky.

In this photo made available by NASA, commercial crew astronauts, from left, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, pose for a photo in their Dragon spacesuits during a fit check a

SpaceX brings 4 astronauts home with midnight splashdown

1:08am May 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The return of three Americans and one German marks the busiest period yet for Elon Musk's space taxi service.

NASA's Perseverance rover took this "selfie" next to a rock where it drilled for samples. NASA wants to bring samples collected by this rover back to Earth.

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NASA is bringing rocks back from Mars, but what if those samples contain alien life?

12:58pm May 04, 2022

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to bring home a pristine sample of Martian rock. But given the small chance of life on the red planet, they have to grapple with safety questions.

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