Space : NPR

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with NASA administrator Bill Nelson about the space agency's plans to return to the moon and travel later to Mars.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/05/1249263726/nasas-administrator-on-ambitions-to-return-to-the-moon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Alberto Minetti of the University of Milan about his research on how astronauts on the moon could keep fit by running around the inside of a cylindrical "Wall of Dea...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249166955/astronauts-on-the-moon-have-a-new-way-to-stay-fit-and-it-involves-the-wall-of-de

Mark Hamill is known for obsessively posting about President Biden (he's a fan) and also about former President Donald Trump (he's really not a fan.) On Friday, he met Biden in the Oval Office.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1249016773/in-time-for-may-the-fourth-mark-hamill-of-star-wars-stopped-by-the-white-house

Wildlife ecologists have seen white-tailed deer expanding their range in North America over many decades. And since the early-2000s these deer have moved north into the boreal forests of western ...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/03/1198909932/deer-boreal-caribou-canada-climate-humans

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248778675/this-week-in-science-biodegradable-plastic-crops-on-mars-and-deer-vs-caribou

Located some 18,500 feet above sea level at the summit of Chile's Cerro Chajnanto mountain, Tokyo Atacama Observatory has instruments that can see celestial objects many light years away from Ear...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248403498/the-worlds-highest-altitude-space-observatory-is-open-for-business

No matter what you're doing right now – sitting, standing, walking – you're moving. First, because Earth is spinning around on its axis. This rotation is the reason we have days. Second, beca...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1198909922/great-attractor-universe-laniakea-milky-way-galaxy

China launched three astronauts into space last week while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting the country. Likely a coincidence, it still stood as a reminder of China's lofty space go...

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/28/1247725920/china-has-big-plans-for-its-space-program

China blasted three astronauts into space on Thursday. The mission is part of an ambitious program which will help pave the way for China to put a person on the moon before 2030.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247405886/china-launched-3-astronauts-bound-for-the-countrys-homemade-space-station

Three astronauts will spend six months on China's space station. Some experts worry China's ambitious space program could pose a threat to U.S. space superiority and military effectiveness.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1247103416/china-space-launch-shenzhou-18-astronauts