04/15/2019 - 08:52
For years, scientists studied black holes, even though they had never seen an image of one.
03/11/2019 - 22:32
This July is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, but NASA isn’t done with the moon yet. The space agency wants to go back -- this time to stay.
02/13/2019 - 23:50
At long last, NASA’s Opportunity rover has gone kerplunk.
12/31/2018 - 12:22
Dear EarthTalk: It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face—even bigger than global warming or a nuclear war—is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we currently track these space rocks and if so, how? And do we have any hope of deflecting them if they are headed right for us?
12/19/2018 - 07:24
Scientists this week announced that they have found another distant body in our solar system.