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January 17, 2023 | 9:12 AM

How Pennsylvania companies are trying to win the new space race

By An-Li Herring/WESA

December 27, 2022 | 1:04 PM

First Contact: An Alien Encounter from the BBC

How might humanity react to an encounter with an alien object?

By Christina Zeiders

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

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 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

July 14, 2022 | 11:06 AM

A buck supermoon rose on Wednesday. Here’s what it looked like around the world

The third supermoon of 2022 rose on Wednesday.

By Wynne Davis/NPR

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

May 25, 2022 | 3:30 PM

NOVA: Touching the Asteroid

NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached out and grabbed a piece of an asteroid named Bennu to bring it back to Earth. NOVA’s “Touching the Asteroid” follows the high-stakes mission. Watch Wednesday, June 1 at 9pm on WITF TV, the PBS Video app, or witf.org/watch.

By Christina Zeiders

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

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

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