Emerging Tech

The Most Vulnerable NASA Missions Under Trump

Reading the tea leaves on the president-elect’s space policy

Emerging Tech

The Extreme Hazing of the Most Expensive Telescope Ever Built

The James Webb Space Telescope, $8.8 billion and 20 years in the making, is undergoing rigorous testing to make sure it can survive launch.

Emerging Tech

Jeff Bezos' New Rocket, Built to Carry Payloads and People

The founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin announced Monday the design of an orbital rocket called New Glenn.

Emerging Tech

What One Year of Space Travel Does to the Human Body

After months aboard the International Space Station, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are coming home.

Digital Government

When Computers Started Beating Chess Champions

On this day 20 years ago, a machine defeated a sitting world champion for the first time.

Digital Government

John Boehner on NSA: The Senate Must Act, But 'We’ll Certainly Look at What They Do'

The House speaker's remarks on Thursday suggest his chamber hasn't written off a "clean" renewal of the Patriot Act.

Digital Government

Ted Cruz Tells NASA to Stop Worrying About Climate Change and Focus on Space

The Texas Republican and likely presidential candidate told NASA’s chief Thursday to focus on “what inspires little boys and little girls across this country.”

Digital Government

Why the Pentagon Announced the U.S. Airstrike in Iraq in a Tweet

These days, the Obama administration is trying to make its own national security announcements before everyone else does.

Digital Government

CDC Uses Twitter to Explain Ebola to the Masses

The health organization is condensing warnings and guidelines into 140-character snippets in a Monday chat.

Digital Government

What Happened to America's Most Important Arctic Ships?

The nation’s fleet of ice-cutting ships is getting older, and congressional action to modernize it isn’t moving at breakneck speed.

Emerging Tech

Obama Met a Giant, Talking Robot Giraffe at the White House Today

The robotic animal that speaks with a British accent and can carry 30 people is just one oddity in a giraffe-centric news cycle this week.

Modernization

Edward Snowden: I Had More Access Than Almost Any Other Official in the Intelligence Community

The man responsible for leaking classified National Security Agency documents says he wasn't just "some low-level employee."

Emerging Tech

What's Going to Happen to the International Space Station?

Russia plans to kick Americans off the station after 2020, four years earlier than the space mission's intended end.