Lego and NASA have a long history of collaborating, but a recently released building set launched the partnership in a new direction — both for the toy company and the space agency. The new Mars Crew Exploration Rover, which went on sale earlier this month, is unlike any space vehicle that Lego — or NASA […]
Mar. 11—The Ohio Caverns in West Liberty will have a special expedition to celebrate the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8. Guests will get a prime view of the interstellar event and a chance to explore the natural wonder of the Ohio Caverns. At 7:30 a.m. that day, the caverns will open early to […]
Aparna Venkatesan is an astronomer and dark-sky advocate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco. John Barentine is an astronomer, historian, author, science communicator, and founder of Dark Sky Consulting, LLC. For as long as there have been humans, the moon has been a calendar, ancestor, ritual, inspiration, and origin […]
Mar. 2—The University of Colorado Boulder is home to the only academic research institute worldwide that’s sent space instruments to every planet in the solar system. It’s also sent multiple instruments to the sun and a variety of moons through NASA missions. The institute, called the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, is CU Boulder’s […]
Uruguay has joined the United States’ effort to establish widespread principles to guide space exploration. Uruguay’s foreign minister Omar Paganini signed the Artemis Accords on behalf of the South American country during the annual U.S.-Uruguay bilateral inter-ministerial dialogue on Feb. 15 in Washington, D.C. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the […]
Greece is the latest country to sign up to the United States’ club for guiding principles of space exploration. Greece’s foreign minister, Giorgos Gerapetritis, signed the Artemis Accords on behalf of his country at the U.S. State Department on Feb. 9, during a wider U.S.-Greece Strategic Dialogue meeting. “Congratulations to Greece on becoming the 35th […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The year ahead promises to deliver some spectacular pursuits, pushing human and scientific exploration of the cosmos further than it’s gone in decades. The visions are grand: NASA plans to send astronauts on a lunar fly-by […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. This year held some truly out-there moments in the world of science and space travel. With SpaceX’s Mars rocket erupting into a ball of flames over the ocean (twice) and a spacecraft swinging by Earth to […]
Calling all Kerbonauts! Private Division and Intercept Games’ “Kerbal Space Program 2” (KSP2) has space enthusiasts and rocket junkies at the edge of their virtual mission control panels as the highly-popular space simulation video game just announced a major new update for armchair astrophysicists and aerospace experts currently playing the sequel’s Early Access version. Fortified […]
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said his country is working to resolve “exploration issues” in the South China Sea so it could start new energy exploration projects in the resource-rich waterway to meet his nation’s energy needs. Marcos, in an interview with Japanese media on Saturday, said tensions in the South China Sea […]