Space

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn't mean we could handle it—biologically,...

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA's pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9...

There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space program. Saying something was "OK" would not do when you could say "A-OK" instead. Saying, "Let's get moving," when you've...

If you ask astronomers how many planets in the universe harbor life, they will likely say there are only two possible answers: one or infinity. We can rule out zero, thanks to the decidedly alive...

America gets back in the astronaut-launching game—almost