In 2012 NASA stealthily slipped a morgue into orbit. No press release. No fanfare. Just a sealed, soft-sided pouch tucked in a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) alongside ...
While America's space program has endured several tragedies, no mission has left the remains of a lost astronaut floating in the final frontier. NASA is understandably prepared if that worst-case ...
The event occurred at the edge of the Milky Way. — -- Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a white dwarf may have gone into death star mode on the edge of the Milky Way, shredding a planet ...
WASHINGTON –The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the death of veteran journalist Walter Cronkite. “It is with great sadness that the NASA family learned of Walter ...
The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...