Signers of the Declaration of Independence: Maryland, Part 2
Samuel Chase, William Paca and Thomas Stone were among Maryland’s four delegates to the Second Continental Congress who adopted the Declaration of Independence […]
Marine Corps Air Station Uses Goats in Wildfire Mitigation
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., is releasing herds of goats in a targeted effort to reduce dry brush and invasive grasses, […]
NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector
Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron […]
APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy […]
COSI Telescope Comes Together
UC Berkeley/Alan Toth UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from […]
NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on March […]
NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy
3 min read NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 shines in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble […]
NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’
5 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) […]
NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle
The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976. Although the […]
NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International […]