2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (233+ words) Fifty students from the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center got to gaze at the stars and learn about astronomy during a field trip to Parkland's William M. Staerkel Planetarium, courtesy the C-U Sunrise Rotary Club. "The UNCC is making a huge impact…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (558+ words) The entire docking process lasted around 3.5 hours " three hours shorter than the previous missions, according to China Manned Space Agency. The Shenzhou 21 spaceship took off as planned at 11:44 p.m. local time Friday from the Jiuquan launch center in northwestern China. The…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (962+ words) Students eagerly watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lift off the ground up into the atmosphere Wednesday morning." Joseph Gonzalez, an aerospace engineering professor, describes that the silence in mission control is a good thing Wednesday morning. Gonzalez is a three…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (267+ words) University of Illinois graduate students Jane Du and Bakshree Mishra watch as NASA counts down toward the launch of three space weather satellites, including the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, on ... University of Illinois graduate students Jane Du and Bakshree Mishra watch…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (791+ words) The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it…...