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Uber recently announced that they have hired NASA engineer Mark Moore to spearhead the company's VTOL transit program, known as Uber Elevate. The post Uber Brings In NASA Engineer To Build Flying Cars appeared first on U...

Teams at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans worked overnight and are continuing Wednesday with assessment and recovery efforts following a tornado strike at the facility Tuesday.

Radioactive glass from the Trinity nuclear test site resembles ancient moon rocks --

Decades-old radioactive glass found blanketing the ground after the first nuclear test bomb explosion is being used by scientists to examine theories about the Moon's formation some 4.5 billion years ago.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A soccer ball on the ISS pays tribute to the seven astronauts who died in the Challenger disaster. The post 31 Years After Disaster, Challenger Soccer Ball Finally Gets To Orbit appeared first on Universe Today.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope:

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:

All known black holes fall into two categories: small, stellar-mass black holes weighing a few Suns, and supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of Suns. Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black hol...

A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend.

The European Space Agency says it will contribute key components for a future NASA mission to take humans around the moon within the next few years.

Orbital ATK sued the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Feb. 7 to prevent a rival firm from getting a contract to collaborate on a government-funded mission to repair a satellite in orbit. SpaceNews....

The tent is up! This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.

Severe thunderstorms and several tornadoes struck the state of Louisiana on Tuesday (Feb. 7). A weather satellite operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured an overhead view ...

"If we want to find an exoplanet that can develop and sustain life, we must figure out which stars make the best parents," said Vladimir Airapetian, lead author of the paper and a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space ...

A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists.

Some stars can be the size of a planet, others can be more than 1400 times bigger than the Sun. Different types of stars are shown to scale in this European Southern Observatory visualization.

It missed the historic discovery, but the Virgo lab in Italy is now primed to extend LIGO’s reach and precision --

The first space shuttle external tank to stand on a launch pad was destroyed by a tornado that hit the New Orleans facility where it was built 40 years ago.

Quantum entanglement may appear to be closer to science fiction than anything in our physical reality. But according to the laws of quantum mechanics -- a branch of physics that describes the world at the scale of atoms ...

ISRO did not disclose exactly how much revenue the launch will generate from those foreign customers. SpaceNews.com

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility has begun recovery efforts after a tornado hit the New Orleans location yesterday (Feb. 8).