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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 198 — A Dragonfly on Titan
On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission and what to expect in the coming years.
On this day in space: Feb. 21, 1931: Germany's 1st liquid-fuel rocket (barely) launches
On Feb. 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of.
What's the point of a space station around the moon?
Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?
Can you really survive on Mars? What science fiction gets wrong about off-world living
Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.
The Milky Way may be hiding a big secret at its heart: an extremely magnetic dead star
Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron star-powered pulsar.
These 70 dusty galaxies at the edge of our universe could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that challenge our understanding of cosmic evolution.
It's toys vs technology in the 1st 'Toy Story 5' trailer, and the toys have an army of Buzz Lightyears
The lovable old-school Toy Story gang takes on mesmerizing modern digital devices in the first trailer for Pixar's "Toy Story 5."
NASA X-ray spacecraft stares into the 'eye of the storm' swirling around supermassive black holes
The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.
Trump says US government will declassify its UFO files. Will we actually learn anything this time, or is this a distraction?
President Donald Trump has issued a statement that he will instruct the federal government to begin releasing all of its files related to UFOs.
'This is really getting real.' NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket fueling test went so well, astronauts could launch March 6
NASA announced today (Feb. 20) that it’s targeting March 6 for the liftoff of Artemis 2, which will be the first crewed mission to go beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 back in 1972.
