When you make a purchase through our article links, Future and its affiliate partners may receive a commission. Credit: NASA 55 years ago today, Apollo 11’s flag-raising on the former lunar surface lasted a total of 10 minutes. Neil Armstrong‘s and Buzz AldrinA two-and-a-half-hour moonwalk in July 1969. But that seminal event in vexillological history … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope recently celebrated its second birthday, as it began service on July 12, 2022. Here are the 10 best Webb photos to date to mark the occasion. Before diving into a series of images, it’s important to establish exactly what makes an image worthy of inclusion. Ultimately, it comes down to … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured parked in the forward port of the Harmony module. This long-term photo was taken at night from the orbital station as it flew 256 kilometers above the Arabian Sea off the coast of … Read more
George Aldrich worked for NASA for more than 50 years, currently at its White Sands test site. In 2005, when ABC News visited the facility, his job was to sniff a pipe that NASA hoped to use in space. He sniffed the hole and nodded. But not everything passes his test. For example, when Sally … Read more
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to determine how melting glaciers, shrinking groundwater and rising seas are changing the planet’s orbit and lengthening days. Earth Days is getting a little longer, and that change is increasing. The reason is related to the same processes that caused the planet’s crust to move about 10 … Read more