A senior NASA scientist pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to authorities about his participation in a program that encourages researchers to develop relationships with China in exchange for grants, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Meyya Meyyappan, of Pacifica, California, was charged with one count of making false statements to the FBI, NASA […]

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November 17, 2020 The four-astronaut team aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) late Monday night after having taken off on Sunday. This mission funded by NASA called Crew-1 is set to break a few records, said NASA officials. Not only is this the first full-length mission that […]

‘Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive,’ says official for diversity and equal opportunity NASA has announced it is revising some unofficial nicknames used to refer to cosmic objects as it joins efforts by some within the scientific community to promote values of “diversity, equity, and […]

Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced the Space Research Innovation Act on Friday “to allow the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to partner with universities to conduct deep-space research and mission development,” according to a press release. While the Department of Defense regularly partners with universities — know as “University Affiliated Research Centers” — NASA […]

This photo provided by NASA shows Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, far right, joining the the crew at the International Space Station, after the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked Sunday, May 31, 2020. The Dragon capsule arrived Sunday morning, hours after a historic liftoff from Florida. It’s the first time […]

President Donald Trump’s legacy will go beyond his accomplishments as the 45th Commander-in-Chief who bettered the lives of Americans. The milestones he made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office. Here are some examples of what Trump has done to advance the U.S. presence in space: • In December, […]

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Something in space has been releasing fleeting blasts of radio waves, and scientists have finally unraveled this decade-old astronomical mystery. The outbursts of energy, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are millisecond-duration radio pulses which were first identified in 2007 from archived data recorded at the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, in July […]

U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the capsule in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that was NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. Behnken and Hurley undocked from the station on […]

NASA announced on June 24 that it will name its D.C. headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the agency. According to a news release published Wednesday, Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, began her career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley […]

Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have successfully disembarked the SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule and entered the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the space station at 10:16 a.m. ET Sunday morning after launching from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Saturday and traveling 19 hours. After making initial contact with the ISS, […]

Vice President Mike Pence, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, introduced some of the 18 astronauts that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has chosen to be on the initial team for the early Artemis missions on and around the Moon. Nine of the astronauts are women, and one of them will most likely […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that a rock is wedged in the container door, allowing rocks to spill back out into space, NASA officials said on Friday. The robotic arm of the probe, OSIRIS-REx, on Tuesday night kicked up a debris cloud of […]

The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. Crew Dragon “Endeavor” decoupled from the orbital station at […]

Source: Youtube//SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in partnership with startup StarLink, is recruiting users to test a technology that could bring high-speed internet to space by 2021, according to reports. “With performance that far surpasses that of traditional satellite internet, and a global network unbounded by ground infrastructure limitations, Starlink will deliver high speed broadband internet to […]

President Donald Trump walks to the podium to speak during an event at the Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday, May 23, 2020, after viewing the SpaceX flight at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 4:00 PM PT — Saturday, May 30, 2020 President Trump spoke at the at […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time. The Dragon—packed with Christmas treats and presents—should reach the space station on Monday, joining the Dragon that delivered four astronauts […]

The United States Space Force announced that an agreement committing it and NASA to “broad collaboration” had been signed by both the organizations’ chiefs at a virtual Mitchell Institute event on Tuesday. These areas of broad collaboration, as mentioned in Tuesday morning’s USSF press release, include: “human spaceflight, U.S. space policy, space transportation, standards and […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch a rocket on Thursday morning to Mars on a mission that will include deploying a rover, a helicopter, and collecting samples that scientists hope may show signs of life on the red planet. “I’m exceptionally excited about what we’re about to do because we’re going to […]

OAN NewsroomUPDATED 9:55 AM PT — Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Space-related stocks are poised for rapid gains as Elon Musk’s SpaceX sets a major milestone in commercial space exploration. One America’s Kristian Rouz has more. RELATED: Astronauts speak from ISS after Crew Dragon launch

NASA and SpaceX have completed a historic launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first time a private company has ever sent people into orbit and the first time in nearly a decade that a space-bound aircraft has taken off from U.S. soil. The rocket lifted off on schedule at […]