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March 25, 2024 | 3:53 PM

Fill up your gas tank and prepare to wait. Some tips to prepare for April’s total solar eclipse

By Heather Hollingsworth/The Associated Press
January 9, 2024 | 2:12 PM

Fuel leak forces Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic to abandon moon landing attempt

By Marcia Dunn/The Associated Press
Updated: January 9, 2024 | 2:11 pm

Lunar lander from Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries

By Marcia Dunn/The Associated Press

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November 20, 2022 | 8:28 AM

The first satellites launched by Uganda and Zimbabwe aim to improve life on the ground

Uganda and Zimbabwe join an ever growing number of African countries that are building up their space technology capabilities

By Max Barnhart/NPR
October 23, 2022 | 7:08 AM

NASA announces the team members for its UFO study

A group of 16 researchers will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs

By Giulia Heyward/NPR
September 28, 2022 | 7:14 AM

This is what NASA’s spacecraft saw just seconds before slamming into an asteroid

It’s the high point of a NASA project known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aka DART.

By Rachel Treisman/NPR
September 4, 2022 | 10:23 AM

NASA won’t try to launch the Artemis 1 moon mission again for at least a few weeks

By Nell Greenfieldboyce and Joe Hernandez/NPR
September 2, 2022 | 4:28 PM

NASA Artemis rocket rescheduled to launch Saturday

According to NASA, the Artemis mission is to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. 

By Aniya Faulcon
August 1, 2022 | 4:18 PM

What can we learn from images from Webb Space Telescope?

“we’re using this to try to understand the way that some of these different elements formed in the early universe to reconstruct the kind of cosmic history of our periodic table”

By Scott LaMar/WITF
July 12, 2022 | 5:29 AM

NASA’s James Webb telescope reveals the universe as we’ve never seen it before

What appears to be tiny specks in space are actually galaxies — billions of years old.

By Joe Palca and Jaclyn Diaz/NPR
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