New Findings Suggest Jupiter's Moon Europa May Have Less Oxygen in Its Subsurface Ocean In a new study* that may dampen hopes of finding...

#57 Science in History 19th April 1982 On this day in 1982, Guion Bluford, Jr. was announced as the first African American astronaut by...

#53 Science in History 1st April 1960 TIROS I, the first successful weather satellite, was launched into orbit on this day in 1960....

#37 Science in History 15th February 2013 Today in 2013, a bright fireball streaked across the morning sky over Russia's Ural Mountains,...

#32 Science in History 05 February 1974 Today in 1974, Mariner 10 sends back information about Venus’s cloud cover. Mariner 10 was...

#20 Science in History 13 January 1978 On this day in 1978, NASA made history by selecting six women as their first female astronaut...

#14 Science in History 03 January 2004 On this day in 2004, Spirit successfully lands on Mars. The Mars rover ‘Spirit’ was sent to...

#02 Science in History 7th May 1992 On this day, the last Space Shuttle to be built was launched from Kennedy Space Center. Its mission...