Women Outnumber Men in NASA’s Newest Astronaut Class

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low ...
The New York Times

The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...
Space.com

Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an ...
Scientific American

NASA Faces Deep Budget Cuts—Every Living Former Science Chief of the Agency Is Sounding the Alarm

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s overall ...