In 2012 NASA stealthily slipped a morgue into orbit. No press release. No fanfare. Just a sealed, soft-sided pouch tucked in a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) alongside ...
While America's space program has endured several tragedies, no mission has left the remains of a lost astronaut floating in the final frontier. NASA is understandably prepared if that worst-case ...
The event occurred at the edge of the Milky Way. — -- Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a white dwarf may have gone into death star mode on the edge of the Milky Way, shredding a planet ...
The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the speed ...
WASHINGTON –The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the death of veteran journalist Walter Cronkite. “It is with great sadness that the NASA family learned of Walter ...
The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...
PRINCESS ANNE, Md.- Tiffany Moisan, a NASA research scientist whose body was found in June in Princess Anne, died by suicide, Princess Anne police said Thursday. Police said the death of Moisan, who ...
Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope have found that a group of "Death Star black holes are swiveling around and pointing at new targets, like the fictional space station in Star Wars." ...
NASA is testing next-generation Mars drone tech in a place a lot like the Red Planet - California’s Mojave Desert in Death Valley National Park. They flew three research drones over the barren, ...