Ian made its initial landfall in Florida on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm with winds just shy of Category 5, according to the National Hurricane Center.
NASA and Axiom Space have signed a mission order for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to take place in the second quarter of 2023.
Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.
NASA has selected three companies to further advance work on deployable solar array systems that will help power the agency’s human and robotic exploration of the Moon under Artemis.
The City of Saint Paul today celebrated the grand opening of Uŋčí Makhá Park, a brand-new 6.4 acre park at the Highland Bridge development. The new park features an off-leash dog park, nature-based playground, two beach volleyball courts, fitness lot, hammock grove, two picnic shelters, and a newly restored section of Hidden Falls Creek.
As NASA prepares for the first integrated flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the Moon this summer as part of Artemis, the agency is moving toward a services contract model for long-term SLS hardware production and operations to reduce costs.
Dennis Andrucyk, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has announced his intent to retire after more than 36 years of federal service, including multiple leadership roles at NASA and as Goddard’s director since January 2020.
An emergency committee from the World Health Organization (WHO) has named the monkeypox outbreak, currently spreading in non-endemic countries, a “public health emergency of international concern” with over 16,000 cases found in 75 countries, including five deaths.
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has confirmed the presence of emerald ash borer (EAB) in Kandiyohi County for the first time. There are now 35 counties in the state, including Kandiyohi, with EAB.
NASA successfully launched the third in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 4:38 p.m. EST Tuesday.
A “Freedom Convoy” of trucks were joined by thousands of demonstrators on foot Sunday to protest Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, while other truckers blocked a border highway into the United States later in the day.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office reported that nearly 1,000 homes and other structures were destroyed and hundreds more damaged by the Marshall fire that covered at least 9.4 square miles (24 square kilometers).
On Sunday, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he won’t vote in favor of President Biden and the Democratic Party’s signature $2 trillion spending bill aimed at environmental and social initiatives.
A new synopsis for DC’s anticipated blockbuster “The Batman” has been released providing insight into the coming chaos seemingly plaguing Gotham City.
