3+ hour, 44+ min ago  (238+ words) Astronomy Magazine In 1959, having determined that military test pilots would make the best astronauts, NASA began screening the records of 508 candidates. From there the group was narrowed to 110 men who went through interviews and written tests; of the 110, 32 candidates were…...

8+ hour, 44+ min ago  (319+ words) Alison earned her bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science from MIT. During this time, she completed several years of research in the field of planetary science, working on research topics that ranged from…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (238+ words) Astronomy Magazine In 1958, a newly minted Harvard Ph. D. named Frank Drake came to Green Bank. Usually he sought out typical radio astronomy targets " the Van Allen Belts around Earth, say, or the surface temperature of Venus, or the radiation belts…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (345+ words) Alison earned her bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science from MIT. During this time, she completed several years of research in the field of planetary science, working on research topics that ranged from…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (70+ words) Hello, Artemis 2. This is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood." Lovell passed away last August at 97, one of the last living voices of the Apollo era. The message that greeted the Artemis 2 astronauts Monday morning was recorded…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (113+ words) Astronomy Magazine Yesterday, the four-person Artemis 2 crew completed the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972, passing within roughly 4, 067 miles of the lunar surface before turning back toward Earth. The seven-hour observation window began as Orion crossed into the Moon's…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (16+ words) The Sky Today on Tuesday, April 7: Comet C/2025 R3 (Pan STARRS) enters the scene'Astronomy Magazine...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (482+ words) Astronomy Magazine NASA's Great Observatories " the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope " were launched between 1990 and 2003, each intended to observe the universe in a different wavelength. Hubble, launched…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (287+ words) Alison earned her bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in earth, atmospheric, and planetary science from MIT. During this time, she completed several years of research in the field of planetary science, working on research topics that ranged from…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1101+ words) Three Americans and one Canadian on Monday traveled farther from Earth than any human has ever ventured. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen'the crew of the'Artemis 2 mission ' have entered…...