Boeing brings space taxi jobs to Florida
Science Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Boeing Co. will bring hundreds of jobs to Florida by basing a program to develop passenger spaceships at the Kennedy Space Center
Geologists may have found oldest known fossils
Science Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
A group of Australian and British geologists working in the Outback have discovered evidence of what may be the oldest-known fossils of life on Earth
NASA launches craft to Jupiter
Science Friday, August 5th, 2011
A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets
NASA views giant asteroid Vesta up close
Science Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Dawn science team is working to determine the significance of the distinct features of Vesta, which include large grooves extending for great distances
Global warming a hoax? NASA reveals Earth releasing heat into space
Science Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Data used to make a case for global warming may prove to be a hoax, according to new data collected from a NASA’s Terra satellite
‘Trojan’ asteroid dances with earth in orbital path
Science Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Astronomers have discovered the first known “Trojan” asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth
Did a methane ‘burp’ clear way for dinosaurs?
Science Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The mass extinction that opened the door for the rise of the dinosaurs about 201 million years ago may have been caused by methane from the seafloor
Space shuttle Atlantis lands safely, ending 30-year program
Science, Technology Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Shuttle Atlantis landed in Florida today, ending the last of 135 missions that put the Hubble into orbit and helped build the International Space Station
NASA to test robot gas attendants for satellites
Science Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
An experiment riding on the final voyage of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is set to test out technologies that could be used on future robotic spacecraft. The experiment, called the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), is a satellite mockup that Atlantis delivered to the International Space Station when it docked on Sunday (July 10). The experiment [...]
Storms threaten Friday space shuttle launch
Science Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
A wave of tropical storms heading toward Kennedy Space Center threatens to delay the last launch of NASA’s space shuttle program Friday morning