On Episode 98 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss what NASA's up to with the agency's Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.This week, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, who is also a former astronaut, commander of the space shuttle, and US Air Force test...

Back to Article List TOI-715 b is particularly intriguing to researchers as a potentially rocky planet at just the right distance from its star that it could host water on its surface. An illustration of Exoplanet TOI-715 b, a super-Earth in the habitable zone...

Space-based solar power (SBSP) has been in the news recently, with the successful test of a solar power demonstrator in space taking place last summer. While the concept is fundamentally sound, there are plenty of hurdles to overcome if the technology is to be...

Before and after satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the scale of the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline earlier this week. The ship, identified as The Gulfstream, ran aground and overturned off...

India plans to launch a powerful weather satellite to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch the action live.The INSAT-3DS satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on Saturday at 7:00 a.m. EST...

It’s time to explore Canis Major. Open cluster M41 is an excellent target for naked-eye observers, the Tau Canis Majoris Cluster offers small-telescope owners nice views, and large-telescope owners can seek out Thor’s Helmet. Astronomy targets for Feb....

After several months of meticulous, careful work, NASA has the final total for their haul of asteroidal material from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu. The highly successful mission successfully collected 121.6 grams, or almost 4.3 ounces, of rock and dust. It...

The Arctic is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects. This rapid warming has profound implications for global climate patterns, human populations and wildlife.The...

An upcoming Chinese lunar mission will carry a small ecosystem and other payloads to test using lunar resources later this decade.China's Chang'e 8 mission is a precursor mission for a moon base, named the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) that the...

Back to Article List Scientists identified the molecule on two main-belt asteroids, 7 Iris and 20 Massalia, using data from the now-defunct SOFIA airborne observatory. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), shown here, took the...