Medicine & TechnologyStudents and scientists continue to pack increasingly innovative missions into tiny satellites known as CubeSats, but getting them to space proves both difficult and expensive. A NASA program based at Kennedy Space Center hopes to help introduce a new class of rockets designed specifically for very small satellites, or even bunches of them.
It seems Russia is experiencing even more trouble with their space program vehicles. A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned causing it to burn up in the atmosphere over Siberia not long after launch, Russia's space agency said.
NASA’s New Horizons space probe is set to make the history books when it flies past Pluto on July 14. Currently, the probe looking closely at the little dwarf planet as it looks for anything that could cause problems for the craft during the final months of its historic mission.
A highly sophisticated new type of drug test can tell if a person has taken cocaine by analyzing chemical traces left behind by their fingerprint, scientists say.
The last intact section of one of Antarctica’s giant ice shelves is weakening fast and will likely disintegrate in the next few years, contributing to a further rise in sea levels, NASA said in a new study.
Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who once walked on the moon, says that he believes that aliens did crash in Roswell, and some of them were captured alive.
In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh have found that when galaxies do die they die of strangulation.
While prospecting and mining on the moon or on asteroids is probably a couple of decades away from becoming reality, according to a NASA scientist speaking at a symposium on planetary and terrestrial mining, oversight will be needed by a body much like the United Nations.
Do you have a weak grip when grasping items with your hands or is your handshake weak compared to others? If so, it could mean your health is in danger, according to a new study.
NASA is already in the planning stages for a future trip to Mars, and one of the hurdles they must jump is how humans will breath on the Red Planet. However, instead of carrying huge oxygen tanks, future human missions may actually utilize methods to actually produce the life giving gas on the planet itself.
Scientists at NASA have found evidence using laboratory experiments that the dark material that dusts the surface of Europa, Jupiter's ice covered moon, may actually be sea salt from a subsurface ocean.
Are you having trouble kicking the habit for good? If so, you may want to consider betting money on yourself. In a new study, researchers have found that smokers who wager money on themselves to quit smoking have better odds of finally quitting smoking.
Following the failed launch of a Russian resupply rocket, NASA and its space agency partners have decided to delay the return of three astronauts from the International Space Station.
The city council in Berkeley, California voted on Tuesday night to pass a cellphone "right to know" law requiring health warnings with the purchase of a cellphone.