Biologists in the Chicago area are teaming up with rocket scientists to study trees – or, more specifically, how trees stand and fall. The Lisle, Ill.-based Morton Arboretum says a weeklong series of experiments are being conducted in an effort …
Twin satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on a quest to explore Earth’s treacherous radiation belts and protect the planet from solar outbursts. NASA launched the science probes before dawn, sending them skyward aboard an unmanned rocket. “They’re now at home …
In a 15-story Wisconsin building a team of scientists waits for hurricane season. That’s when a multi-million dollar, unmanned aircraft will start flying from Wallops Island, Va., loaded up with a UW-Madison-engineered instrument to gather data from tropical storms off …
A discarded chunk of a Russian rocket is forcing six space station astronauts to seek shelter in escape capsules early Saturday. NASA spokesman Rob Navias says the space junk will barely be close enough to be a threat. But if …
After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change. The $1.5 billion NASA mission comes in a year of weather extremes from the Midwest tornado outbreak …
A retired satellite is hurtling toward the atmosphere and pieces of it could crash into the Earth as early as Friday, the German Aerospace Center says. Scientists are no longer able to communicate with the dead German satellite ROSAT, which …
NASA has pinpointed where its now famously falling satellite landed, and unless you are an insurer of someone who lives in the middle of the Indian Ocean between the coast of African and the Antarctic, your worries are over. According …
It’s as big as a bus and weighs 6 tons, but officials probably will never be able to pinpoint exactly where a massive NASA satellite plummeted to Earth. NASA space junk scientists believe that all – or nearly all – …