Teenager Launches LEGO Shuttle Into Space
Raul Oaida sent the payload to space by way of a large helium balloon.
How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space
Raul Oaida, 18-years-old, attached a LEGO shuttle, a video camera and a GPS tracker, to a huge helium balloon and sent them into space.
Dark Matter Just Got More Mysterious
A smashup between two galaxy clusters left an unexpected amount of dark matter in its wake.
Planet Or Not, Pluto’s Getting A Visitor
An update on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.
‘Galileo’ Lives In A New Production
F. Murray Abraham stars in an off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Galileo.’
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring Cosmic Frontiers
In Space Chronicles, Tyson argues that space exploration is vital to human progress.
Desktop Diaries: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us into his office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a tour of his office, in the fourth of Science Friday’s Desktop Diaries series.
Imagining A More Active Moon
New research says that our moon may be more geologically active than once thought.
What Happens When You Levitate Flies?
In a recent study, Richard Hill levitated fruit flies to see how they behaved when they didn’t have gravity pulling them down.
Spinning Eggs In Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit did science experiments in Space that interested him–like testing whether raw and hard-boiled eggs spin differently in space (as they do on Earth).