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NASA Coaxes Biofuel From Bags of Sewage
There are lots of creative ways to produce biofuel from algae, but NASA's takes the cake. The space agency is growing biofuel in plastic...
50 Years of NASA Innovations Gave Us Easier Life
In celebration of 50 years of NASA, take a look at 50 innovations that, thanks to space exploration, have made our lives better --...
NASA Beams Beatles Tune ‘Across the Universe’ Into Deep Space
U.S. space officials said The Beatles song Across the Universe will be blasted directly into deep space tonight.The tune will be beamed toward the...
We’ve Read the Cover: Now NASA Opens The Book On Mars
The public has seen four rovers scratching the surface of Mars, and two orbiters peering at the red planet. Now with dazzling precision, NASA...
Father-Daughter Duo Won the Race to Decode an Extraterrestrial Message–Sent from Mars to Test Humanity
These white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate an extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father-daughter team...
Astronomers Find Hungriest Black Hole–Consuming Matter 40x Faster Than Theoretical Limit: ‘Having a Feast’
A team of U.S. National Science Foundation astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of an early galaxy just 1.5 billion...
Aging Voyager 1 Restarts a Radio it Hasn’t Used Since 1981–Prompted from 15 Billion Miles Away
Facing one obstacle after another, the operators of NASA's Voyager 1 probe continue to find creative solutions to keep the farthest manmade object from...
Good News in History, November 4
287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the...
Good News in History, November 2
This daily column features all the good news, anniversaries and birthdays from this day in history—November 2.
Four Astronauts Returned to Earth After Unexpected 8 Months Stuck in Space
The astronauts who were stranded aboard the International Space Station have splashed down on Earth following their unexpected 8-month stay.
It wasn't quite Lost in Space—they...
Sicily Will be Reachable Via World’s Longest Suspension Bridge That Italians Have Wanted for Centuries
Dreamt of since the Roman Empire, the men and women, taxpayers and taxspenders of the Italian Peninsula are preparing for an engineering project unrivaled...
Good News in History, October 17
21 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
SpaceX Lands its Rocket On a Dime– So it Can Be Reused and Launched Back into Orbit
The 5th test launch of the SpaceX Starship vehicle came with a party trick—a landing—which it stuck.
Not since the Moon landings has an American...
Good News in History, October 15
27 years ago today, NASA and ESA's Cassini Mission, meant to gather data on Saturn and its moons, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The...
Good News in History, October 13
Happy 90th birthday to the incredible Nana Mouskouri. For those unfamiliar with this goddess of Euro songbirds, she released over 200 albums of songs...
Largest-Ever Planetary Spacecraft Set for Launch Towards Jupiter to Study the Ocean Moon of Europa
NASA has seen some outstanding recent successes in robotic exploration over the past 20 years, but now the agency's flagship explorer—the largest spacecraft ever...
Rock Formation Deep in Australian Outback Holds New Clues to Climate Change Now That its True Age is Known
An unusual rock formation deep in the Australian outback could hold key clues to future climate change, now that it has finally been dated...
Telescopes Capture Black Hole in Unprecedented Color Photo Using Triple-Frequency
For generations, humanity has had to be content with artistic illustrations of black holes as a means to imagine these difficult-to-imagine cosmic objects.
Now, the...
Sahara Desert Is Turning Green Amid Unusual Rains in Parts of North Africa
Bountiful rains are greening parts of the Sahara that haven't had a good soak in years.
An extratropical cyclone pushed across the northwestern Sahara on...
Good News in History September 26
41 years ago today, the lives of two Soviet cosmonauts, Gennady Strekalov and Vladimir Titov, were saved in the only use of an emergency...