NASA Offering $35K In Prizes To Design A Toilet That Will Work On The Moon
NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it's offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon.
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NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it's offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon.
NASA is renaming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black female engineer who helped inspire the story behind the book and film "Hidden Figures."
Researchers have long thought that Pluto began as an icy sphere when it formed in the Kuiper Belt, a home to cold, dark objects on the edge of our solar system.
Satellite imagery is confirming what scientists have thought for weeks now; our reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic is translating to cleaner air.
The final supermoon of the year, rounding out a trio of spring supermoons that began in March, will occur during May's full moon.
An asteroid estimated to be 1.2 miles wide flew by Earth early Wednesday morning, close enough to see on a telescope.
NASA launched one of its greatest exploration tools 30 years ago. The Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit April 24th, 1990 on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
When interstellar comet 2I/Borisov entered our solar system last year, this time capsule from another place in the universe opened and revealed information about its origin, according to new research.
Michael Hetle, 52, was arrested Tuesday after the fatal shooting of Specialist Javon Prather, 24, Fairfax County police said in a news release. Hetle and Prather were neighbors in Springfield, Virginia, news outlets reported.
A viral tweet suggests that NASA said Monday was the only day the "standing broom" trick would work, because of the earth's gravitational pull.
Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee spent Wednesday at NASA Headquarters for their Black History Month celebration.
NASA TV will livestream the launch starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
According to NASA, it's been a summer of near-record ice loss in Greenland, and there's more melting to come.
The U.S. is in the midst of an effort to return to the moon, paving a way to a journey to Mars.
The recent California wildfires are having a serious impact on air quality across the country.
A new study found that exposure to low-dose radiation in space can cause impairments in the brains of mice, resulting in learning and memory issues as well as anxiety
A "once in a lifetime" event will honor the Apollo 11's launch in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will project a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket on the east side of the Washington Monument July 16-18.
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 will be honored with a brand new special coming to CBS.
The Apollo program, which first took man to the moon, took a tremendous amount of resources. Now, public-private partnerships are helping move closer to the next moon landing.
The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, but there was a crucial "fourth crew member" on board: the Apollo Guidance Computer.
For years, NASA has been creating technology for space that ends up enhancing our everyday lives.
NASA's Apollo space program was dedicated to putting American astronauts on the moon.
Fortunately, for Apollo 11 and all of mankind, a young, brilliant MIT software engineer saw a potentially mission-crippling error coming from nearly a million miles away.
Growing up in rural Georgia, Lewis Wooten felt light years away from the long, illustrious career he has built at NASA.
