Emerging Tech
The Most Vulnerable NASA Missions Under Trump
Reading the tea leaves on the president-elect’s space policy
Emerging Tech
The Extreme Hazing of the Most Expensive Telescope Ever Built
The James Webb Space Telescope, $8.8 billion and 20 years in the making, is undergoing rigorous testing to make sure it can survive launch.
Emerging Tech
Jeff Bezos' New Rocket, Built to Carry Payloads and People
The founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin announced Monday the design of an orbital rocket called New Glenn.
Emerging Tech
What One Year of Space Travel Does to the Human Body
After months aboard the International Space Station, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are coming home.
Digital Government
When Computers Started Beating Chess Champions
On this day 20 years ago, a machine defeated a sitting world champion for the first time.
Modernization
What the U.S. East Coast's Massive Snow Storm Looks Like From Space
And what it looks like from the street.
Emerging Tech
Smithsonian Raises $700,000 on Kickstarter to Save Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit
Now that’s some expensive dry cleaning.
Digital Government
John Boehner on NSA: The Senate Must Act, But 'We’ll Certainly Look at What They Do'
The House speaker's remarks on Thursday suggest his chamber hasn't written off a "clean" renewal of the Patriot Act.
Digital Government
Ted Cruz Tells NASA to Stop Worrying About Climate Change and Focus on Space
The Texas Republican and likely presidential candidate told NASA’s chief Thursday to focus on “what inspires little boys and little girls across this country.”
Emerging Tech
Impending Solar Storm Could Cause Tech, Power Grid Disruptions
Cloudy with a chance of solar radiation.
Emerging Tech
Which US Company Will Help the Government Send Americans to Space?
A different kind of space race is coming to an end.
Digital Government
Why the Pentagon Announced the U.S. Airstrike in Iraq in a Tweet
These days, the Obama administration is trying to make its own national security announcements before everyone else does.
Digital Government
CDC Uses Twitter to Explain Ebola to the Masses
The health organization is condensing warnings and guidelines into 140-character snippets in a Monday chat.
Digital Government
What Happened to America's Most Important Arctic Ships?
The nation’s fleet of ice-cutting ships is getting older, and congressional action to modernize it isn’t moving at breakneck speed.
Emerging Tech
Obama Met a Giant, Talking Robot Giraffe at the White House Today
The robotic animal that speaks with a British accent and can carry 30 people is just one oddity in a giraffe-centric news cycle this week.
Modernization
Edward Snowden: I Had More Access Than Almost Any Other Official in the Intelligence Community
The man responsible for leaking classified National Security Agency documents says he wasn't just "some low-level employee."
Emerging Tech
What's Going to Happen to the International Space Station?
Russia plans to kick Americans off the station after 2020, four years earlier than the space mission's intended end.
Digital Government
The Number of Measles Cases This Year Is Already Troubling -- and It's Only April
Health officials are worried.
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