On Saturday, for the first time, a rocket blasted off from the US West Coast to fling its payload on an…
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Mika McKinnon
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Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, public speaker, irrepressible educator
If all goes according to plan, NASA’s Mars InSight mission will launch this weekend from California. Onboard the…
Peggy is something along the edge of Saturn’s ring, a glitch whose source we’ve never seen. Cassini took a last peek…
Yesterday morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slammed into the day side of Saturn, the brief flash of its…
It’s taken half a century, but we’re finally getting a handle on our Sun’s complex magnetic field. A new model from…
Parent-child relationships are challenging. They just get more complicated when the pair is father Morland Holmes, a…
Astronauts fired this small, rectangular hunk from the International Space Station today. The payload will separate…
It’s hard to remember the beauty of winter when constantly shovelling walkways, scraping ice off cars, and tromping…
Reusable rockets just went from a party trick to a research necessity. Have a rocket you can launch, land safely,…
Curiosity is busy poking and prodding the Bagnold Dunes, learning some new tricks in the first-ever interplanetary…
Thirty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded. The tragedy shocked a nation caught in launch fever, and…
The new Cygnus spacecraft is the cheeriest of the cargo tugs hauling gear to the International Space Station. Those…
We’re openly obsessed with the assembly of the segmented origami mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. A…
All these rich greens usually mean vegetation, but this is an arid, salty land almost totally inhospitable to…
Today was supposed to mark a step forward in human flights for the Apollo program. Instead, flames exploded inside…
Our planet can be too beautiful to be plausible some days. This frozen lake in the Himalayas is shockingly deep blue…
There are lots of things most of us never contemplate when we fantasize about living in space: What happens to your…
On Friday, Blue Origin launched their same New Shepard rocket booster that it launched into space two months ago.…
Go go Dragon! SpaceX just posted video of its Dragon 2 spacecraft testing its ability to hover. Once certified, this…