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    August 10, 2018
    Josh Wasniewski, a student at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, watches as Tate Petrowuski, 10, of Foley enjoys views of Saturn through an 8-inch telescope in Canal Park on a recent Friday night. The full moon is at top center. At right are Josh (Tate's father) and Ty, 13. Members of the Arrowhead Astronomical Society routinely set up their telescopes for public viewing of the moon and planets on Friday and Saturday nights during the summer and fall when weather permits. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
    Photo essay: Turning eyes to the sky
    Turning eyes to the sky
    lifestyleAugust 10, 2018 - 8:48am
    April 9, 2018
    What the inside of the orbiting hotel may look like. Orion Span
    New luxury hotel will cost $792,000 a night - and be 200 miles up
    Aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut's life is typically work, exercise, rest, repeat. But what if your chance of having the...
    lifestyle/travelApril 9, 2018 - 9:15pm
    March 8, 2018
    A rendering of China's 9½-ton space station, Tiangong-1. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
    China's space lab will soon crash to Earth. Scientists think they know where - sort of.
    Heads up, Spain and Portugal. And France. Maybe you, too, Greece. China's 9½-ton space station, Tiangong-1, will come falling from space soon,...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 8, 2018 - 7:34am
    February 7, 2018
    A screenshot of SpaceX's livestream of the Tesla Roadster in space after being launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018. Image courtesy of SpaceXplay button
    With Falcon Heavy launch, Elon Musk earns kudos even from competitors
    COCOA BEACH, Fla. - Before founding SpaceX in 2002, Elon Musk had a wild plan to fly a plant to Mars. The idea was to show life on the desolate...
    news/science-and-natureFebruary 7, 2018 - 1:13pm
    December 19, 2017
    In an undated handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S. Department of Defense via The New York Times Copyright 2017)
    Former Navy pilot describes encounter with UFO studied by secret Pentagon program
    For most of his 18-year career as a U.S Navy pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor said his mother-in-law used to ask him a question: had he seen a UFO?...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 19, 2017 - 7:17am
    December 18, 2017
    In an undated handout image taken from a video released by the Defense Department's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a 2004 encounter near San Diego between two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets and an unknown object. UFOs have been repeatedly investigated over the decades in the United States, including by the American military. (U.S. Department of Defense via The New York Times Copyright 2017)
    'It's rotating!': After U.S. government admits to funding UFO program, a newly released video shows they were onto something
    For decades, Americans were told that Area 51 didn't really exist and that the U.S. government had no official interest in aliens or UFOs.
    newsDecember 18, 2017 - 1:42pm
    Warning sign near Area 51. Photo from Wikimedia Commons
    The government admits it studies UFOs. So about those Area 51 conspiracy theories …
    For decades, Americans were told that Area 51 didn't really exist and that the U.S. government had no official interest in aliens or UFOs. Statements...
    newsDecember 18, 2017 - 8:54am
    December 17, 2017
    SpaceX launches supplies for NASA with used booster rocket for first time
    SpaceX used a previously flown rocket and spacecraft to launch supplies for NASA to the International Space Station on Friday, the first time the space agency — or any U.S. government agency — used one of the company's used rocket boosters. The first-stage booster used...
    businessDecember 17, 2017 - 3:00pm
    December 8, 2017
    The Space Kingdom of Asgardia says it just launched a new nation in space. A legal expert disagrees.
    It might not look like much but a small, new satellite now in orbit above Earth holds the claim of being a first step into the final frontier....
    newsDecember 8, 2017 - 12:06pm
    November 24, 2017
    "The Blue Marble" is a photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 mi). Flat earth theorists argue such photos were faked by NASA. Image via Wikipedia.
    A flat-Earther's plan to launch himself in a homemade rocket just hit a speed bump
    A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket - in an effort to "prove" that Earth...
    newsNovember 24, 2017 - 2:30pm
    October 28, 2017
    An unusual, fast-moving object from somewhere else in the galaxy just visited our solar system
    Relax. It’s not an alien probe droid or anything that could potentially slam into Planet Earth. Even so, NASA scientists are over the moon...
    newsOctober 28, 2017 - 9:03am
    June 19, 2017
    Artist's concept depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently confirmed that the system, called KOI-961, hosts the three smallest exoplanets known so far to orbit a star other than our sun. NASA-JPL-Caltech
    NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable 'Earth-like' worlds
    Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky...
    newsJune 19, 2017 - 9:00pm
    May 8, 2017
    Deaf test subjects prepare for zero-gravity flight. (Courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives, David Myers Collection)
    How deaf men helped NASA understand motion sickness in space
    WASHINGTON - Barron Gulak remembers one experiment that did not take place in a lab. In 1964, Gulak and the other test subjects for the research...
    newsMay 8, 2017 - 2:58pm
    February 22, 2017
    Artist's concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech
    Astronomers find seven Earth-size planets where life may be possible
    Astronomers have found a nearby solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, three of which circle their parent star at the right distance for...
    newsFebruary 22, 2017 - 4:12pm
    February 18, 2017
    A SpaceX rocket sits on launch pad39A on Saturday after it was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was expected to launch. The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and hundreds of science experiments to the International Space Station, will open Sunday morning. Pad39A is the launch site of a rocket that carried the first U.S. astronauts to the moon. It was also the site of the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
    SpaceX launch scrubbed with 13 seconds to go
    A planned SpaceX launch Saturday was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was to lift off. The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and...
    newsFebruary 18, 2017 - 6:18pm
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