December 8, 2021 Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan invest $3.4B for science advances Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are investing up to $3.4 billion to advance human health over 10 to 15 years, according to a spokesperson for their philanthropic organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
December 4, 2021 NASA to launch latest mission to test laser communication in space NASA's next laser communications mission will launch early Sunday morning.Â
December 1, 2021 Kamala Harris says new space policy will focus on climate change Vice President Kamala Harris, who chairs the National Space Council, said during the council's first meeting Wednesday that the Biden administration's new space policy will focus on combating climate change.
November 30, 2021 NASA delays spacewalk following space debris alert A scheduled spacewalk by NASA astronauts was postponed after the agency received a debris warning for the International Space Station (ISS).Â
November 24, 2021 NASA launches spacecraft to crash into asteroid NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
November 20, 2021 NASA to crash spacecraft into asteroid to test planetary defense: What to know NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning.Â
November 18, 2021 Longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years: When to watch A partial lunar eclipse will take place on Thursday night and into early Friday.Â
November 15, 2021 US condemns Russia for blowing up own satellite and creating space debris The United States condemned Russia on Monday for destroying one of its own satellites, which created debris that U.S. Space Command says could endanger space crews for decades.
November 4, 2021 Search for life on other worlds tops astronomy to-do list A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of their to-do list for the next 10 years.
November 3, 2021 NASA's Hubble Telescope in safe mode again National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope is in safe mode yet again.