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Carnegie Mellon University has announced plans to build a mission control center on campus for its upcoming space missions.
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Jupiter and Saturn will appear as the brightest stars in the sky this evening during an event that hasn’t been visible from Earth in this way for nearly…
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Two retired satellites will cross paths this evening above Pittsburgh. At around 6:30 p.m., the IRAS telescope and GGSE-4 payload are expected to come…
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Elayne Arrington says she knew she excelled in mathematics when she showed up a classmate in a high school geometry class.After the group she was working…
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Artist JJ Tiziou is practically drowning in space travel memorabilia. His small studio in West Philadelphia is filled with boxes and boxes of NASA pins,…
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The people have spoken: a token from Kennywood Park will be sent to the moon's surface as part of Pittsburgh company Astrobotic's first lunar payload,…
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A research project from students at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy is headed to the International Space Station. The team hopes to find…
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The annual orionid meteor shower will be at its peak Sunday and Monday, giving Pittsburghers a fabulous view of space debris streaking across the night…
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Next month, 12 new astronaut trainees will arrive in Houston, Texas for two years of intense training to prepare them for future missions into outer…
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NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the…