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- First LookHow to make space exploration less expensive? Reuse the rockets.
A reusable space rocket engine has been undergoing tests in an effort to make space travel easier to engineer and more affordable. Officials have been firing up the rocket every 24 hours, to see if it can sustain regular and repeated use.
- First LookHow to make space exploration less expensive? Reuse the rockets.
A reusable space rocket engine has been undergoing tests in an effort to make space travel easier to engineer and more affordable. Officials have been firing up the rocket every 24 hours, to see if it can sustain regular and repeated use.
- Rise of the 'Jurassic Park' generation
The “Jurassic Park” franchise has boosted not just box-office coffers, but the field of paleontology itself.
- Programmed to believe: Why people buy into falsehoods
In a “post-truth” world, the media has struggled with how to address false political statements. Our reporter took a step back and examined why falsehoods persist.
- NASA's Alan Stern talks Pluto ... and beyond
Planetary scientist Alan Stern shares what it has been like to devote the bulk of his career to the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt.
- Organic matter found on Mars, opening new chapter in search for life
Two announcements from NASA today represent major steps forward in cracking that case.
- Pluto dune mystery challenges scientists' frame of reference
Signs of dunes on the dwarf planet baffled scientists ... until they started thinking differently.
- First LookVirginia students plan for mission to space
In the fall, miniature satellites will be launched into space aboard an International Space Station resupply rocket. Students in Southwest Virginia will be tracking their progress as part of a program designed to inspire technological innovation in a region traditionally focused on coal.
- How NASA's latest mission to Mars might dig up truths about Earth
When trying to understand ourselves, sometimes it helps to look to our neighbors. As NASA sets course for Mars once again, we examine how important the Red Planet has become in understanding planets, including our own.
- First LookSpace Center University trains a growing crowd of aspiring astronauts
A five-day space education program hosted by Space Center Houston has been opening its doors to curious high schoolers since 2000. Now, the center is expanding enrollment to middle school students as well.
- First LookInSight spacecraft has a deep mission in Martian soil
NASA will soon deploy the Mars InSight spacecraft from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The goal of the mission is to bore 16 feet into the Red Planet to investigate its geological composition.
- How Kepler opened our eyes to the vastness of our galactic neighborhood
As NASA's newest planet hunter, TESS, launches into space, scientists reflect on its predecessor. The Kepler space telescope revealed complexities of the universe that were previously beyond imagination.
- First LookNASA's Tess spacecraft on a mission to find new planets
Set to lift off next week, the spacecraft's 'mission for the ages' will see Tess exploring other galactic neighborhoods for planets outside our solar system in the most extensive survey of its kind.
- First Look$1 million grant will expand first large-scale, national study of transgender kids
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1 million grant to psychologist Kristina Olson, the researcher behind the TransYouth Project. The study's early findings demonstrated the importance of familial support for transgender children's well-being.
- What slime molds can teach us about thinking
The extraordinary learning, memory, and pattern-recognition behavior of some non-animals such as plants and slime molds show that it’s possible to have smarts without having brains.
- First LookNASA continues exploration of unknown planets orbiting stars outside our solar system
NASA will be launching a surveying satellite into space to search for exoplanets that could sustain life. Discoveries will be explored with larger telescopes which will search for water and atmospheric gases that are indicative of life.
- First LookNASA continues exploration of unknown planets orbiting stars outside our solar system
NASA will be launching a surveying satellite into space to search for exoplanets that could sustain life. Discoveries will be explored with larger telescopes which will search for water and atmospheric gases that are indicative of life.
- FocusFor women in science, busting barriers is just part of the job
As awareness of bias has increased, so too have efforts to address the subtle ways in which women find their work devalued. But in many institutions, women still struggle to get male peers and supervisors to acknowledge the problem.
- First LookGirl finds 65 million year old fossil in Oregon field
To 7-year-old Naomi Vaughan, her fossil find is her 'Moana rock' because of its resemblance to the spiral necklace in the Disney film. The pearlescent rock is an ammonite fossil, a marine invertebrate that became extinct more than 65 million years ago.
- Remembering Stephen Hawking: Gifts from an unbounded mind
Stephen Hawking pushed everyone – scientists and non-scientists alike – to think beyond themselves and puzzle about the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.