After 203 days and 293 million miles, NASA’s latest Mars rover landed safely on the Red Planet. After the usual “seven minutes of terror,” the rover became the fifth vehicle to land on Mars. It touched down in Jezero Crater…
Ingenuity will attempt the first flight on another planet. The four-pound helicopter is strapped to NASA’s Perseverance rover. On Mars, the aircraft will perform a series of test flights to demonstrate if flight is possible. If the missions are a…
A busy highway near Stonehenge is causing traffic jam and pollution near the historic site. A plan is in place to build a bigger road tunnel underground. Historians worry there will be “unforeseen and lasting impact on the artifact-laden land.”…
Yellowstone is working to piece together some of its lost history. Long before it was a park, native people hunted and camped on the land for at least 11,000 years. When it became a national park, the U.S. government pushed…
NASA announced the names of the 18 astronauts that will start training for its new moon mission, Artemis. Of the 18, half are women. One of them will be the first woman to walk on the moon. Safety is a…
The US space program celebrated an important anniversary in 2019. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed men on the moon for the first time. The accomplishment was a game-changer in the Space Race with the Soviet Union. Events across…
See the Apollo 11 launch pad. Watch a virtual Mars sunset. Get a good look at Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit—and gloves. In honor of the moon landing’s milestone anniversary, six space centers from Florida to Texas to Washington State are offering…
People have long assumed that the moon is geologically dead. After all, our natural satellite lacks the internal heat needed for tectonic activity. Right? But new analysis of data recorded by seismometers during the Apollo era is shedding light on…
In May 2019, American explorer Victor Vescovo and his team completed the deepest-ever ocean dive—35,849 feet below the surface. Descending in a submersible to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, Vescovo identified new species of shrimp-like creatures called…
He’s the last living member of the first team to summit Mount Everest. Now, 66 years later, Kanchha Sherpa says life at the base of the world’s tallest mountain has changed considerably. Namche Bazaar, the nucleus of the region, has…