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March 30, 2022 | 9:48 AM

Pittsburgh’s first mission control center to land at Carnegie Mellon University ahead of 2022 lunar rover launch

Carnegie Mellon University will send its first rover, Iris, to the moon this year.

By Kiley Koscinski/WESA
March 11, 2022 | 11:35 AM

NASA is just now opening a vacuum-sealed sample it took from the moon 50 years ago

NASA has waited 50 years to open a tube of moon rocks and soil because the agency knew future technology would be able to analyze the contents better.

By Laurel Wamsley/NPR
January 24, 2022 | 8:49 AM

Lebanon County tech students make parts for Space Station

By Scott LaMar

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January 9, 2022 | 7:15 AM

NASA’s James Webb telescope completes its final unfolding in space

Fine-tuning of the telescope is now underway

By Deepa Shivaram/NPR
January 4, 2022 | 5:24 AM

NASA estimates metrics of exploding meteor that shook ground in Pittsburgh area

The space agency’s Meteor Watch says a “reasonable assumption” of the speed of the meteor at about 45,000 mph would allow a “ballpark” estimate of its size as about a yard in diameter with a mass close to half a ton.

By The Associated Press
July 15, 2021 | 11:14 AM

A study predicts record flooding in the 2030s, and it’s partly because of the moon

Researchers say high tide flooding in U.S. coastal regions will become more frequent in the mid-2030s because of climate change, amplified by a routine wobble in the moon’s orbit.

By Josie Fischels/NPR
April 19, 2021 | 9:56 AM

Success! NASA’s Ingenuity makes first powered flight on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made the first-ever powered flight on another planet, 117 years after the Wright Brothers’ historic flight on this planet.

By Joe Palca/NPR
March 2, 2021 | 3:00 PM

Smart Talk: Tax deadline approaches, what this means for stimulus recipients and the unemployed

Also, The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover makes historic landing
By Merideth Bucher
February 28, 2021 | 10:46 AM

Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new solar wings

Astronauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install support frames for new solar panels arriving later this year.

By Marcia Dunn/AP
August 1, 2020 | 7:12 AM

Astronauts set to return to Earth in first U.S. splashdown in decades

By NPR
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