NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX six additional flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) agreements for up to $14 billion. Northrop Grumman, a US… [+2049 chars]
Washington: Internal email documents of NASA indicate that the US space agency officials have dismissed concerns raised by the LGBTQ community over the name of the James Webb Space Telescope. The fl… [+2665 chars]
Researchers at UC Davis are developing transgenic lettuce that could one day provide medicine as well as morale-boosting food on the International Space Station and beyond Researchers at University… [+8660 chars]
Watkins’ first spaceflight made her the first black woman to fly an extended mission in space by accident. But it also shows how NASA approaches human spaceflight as the agency works on a manned retu… [+3338 chars]
Skip to content Gaia spotted Webb from 620,000 miles away. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope is turning out to be a photogenic spacecraft. In the three months since its launch, Webb has already sen… [+2908 chars]
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scien… [+7267 chars]
Sign up for CNNs Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The first NASA mission to the moon since 1972 is ready… [+5298 chars]
UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satellit… [+4049 chars]
The Sun has been the source of life on Earth. It is also a never-ending source of human curiosity and keeps throwing up surprises as it just did. An unexpected phenomenon has been discovered on the S… [+1944 chars]
Ancient, primordial helium that was forged in the wake of the Big Bang is leaking from Earth's core, scientists report in a new study. There's no cause for alarm. Earth isn't deflating like a sad ba… [+3656 chars]
A pair of researchers from Universit´e Paris-Saclay, CNRS and Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR, respectively, has used math to help describe the process involved when short strands of fiber are twisted into lo… [+2795 chars]
Astronomers are studying a carbon-rich red giant star, V Hydrae that is shedding its atmosphere in slowly expanding rings, along with an hourglass shaped structure. V Hydrae, abbreviated to V Hya, is… [+3074 chars]
