An Iowa man who recently returned from the International Orbit Station is talking about his time in space. Raja Chari, a Cedar Falls native, spent six months in space. NASA hosted a live news confe… [+832 chars]
Asteroid 2022: A giant 1,600 feet asteroid which is said to be bigger than the Empire State Building in New York will pass by the Earth on May 15. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Admi… [+2484 chars]
Scientists have for the first time grown seeds in lunar soil collected by US space agency NASAs long-ago moonwalkers, an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human … [+3652 chars]
Mars, which is presently frigid and dry, had liquid water on its surface far more recently than previously imagined. Scientists have long assumed that Mars was wet roughly 3 billion years ago, durin… [+2708 chars]
SpaceXs Crew-3 mission had an eventful six months in space, from dodging space junk to greeting the first-ever wholly commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Crew-3 docked w… [+4611 chars]
NASA astronauts have participated in a study to assist improve astronaut health during long-term space excursions. The study on Tuesday focused on exercise and the central nervous system, providing … [+2616 chars]
Parts of Antarctica have actually gained ice during the last 20 years, new research reveals, despite the continent suffering significant loss due to global warming. Researchers say that sea ice, pus… [+6408 chars]
The Mars water theory is getting more and more exciting! Earlier, it was believed that Mars carried water in the liquid form about 3 billion years ago, when the second geological age of the planet, k… [+2163 chars]
One of the biggest challenges to our traditional understanding of the cosmos is something called the "satellite disk problem." In essence, scientists are confused because smaller galaxies orbit large… [+2037 chars]
What's in a star? Well, if you're a highly evolved specimen nearing the end of its life named HD 222925, rather a heck of a lot, actually. Scientists have conducted an analysis of this dim object, a… [+4470 chars]
Three years ago, scientists used a telescope the size of Earth to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, they've done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisib… [+5454 chars]
Storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, clouds. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's new GOES-18 satellite will witness them all, helping us to better forecast and understand weather,… [+1526 chars]
