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On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with...

When Vera Rubin died in 2016, for a brief moment the gaze of the Internet swung her way to notice her remarkable life and work, to say a...

The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation,...

Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to figure out as...

The IBM 650 was a marvellous beast. The world’s first mass-produced (and first profitable) computer, it was the mainstay machine of the...

Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard...

The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six...

When it comes finally time to settle Mars, the most terrifying sound might not be *RRRIP* or ‘I'‘m sorry, Dave, I don'‘t WANT to turn the...

An arrow hits a target as a fifteen year old girl on a horse goes galloping victoriously by. It is not an entirely unusual sight in late...

In between landing on the moon in July of 1969 and launching the first space shuttle into orbit in April of 1981, NASA learned a few...

Dr Beatrice Tinsley lived on our resolutely turning planet for only four decades, but in that time she gifted us a vision of the cosmos...

It is one of the great stories in the Korean royal tradition. A young princess named Deokman is brought a painting of peonies by her...

This day, let us speak of a new type of hero, one whose life story is not told as a sum of new products invented and foisted upon an...

Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are done, they...

The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between...

When Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) rewrote our conception of how heavenly bodies move by replacing the ideal and eternal circles of...

Before, ‘The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, all there ever will be,’ there was, ‘The stars belong to everyone,’ the...

There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while...

For a half century after the discovery of Pluto in 1930, the common wisdom was that it was the last, furthest member of our solar system,...

Sometimes the hardest thing about living in the universe is knowing about it. There is real and true terror to be faced in the...