For decades, NASA has been the pinnacle of American scientific and technological progress. However, President Donald Trump is proposing to cut the agency’s funding by nearly 50%. This raises concerns...
The crew of Artemis II successfully landed down on Earth, following their 10-day mission around the moon, in which they traveled the farthest distance in human history. Along with captivating millions...
The White House’s Department of Management and Budget announced a major budget cut of up to 24% for NASA’s $25 billion budget earlier this year. According to data from the NASA Budget Justifications,...
Kepler-442b is one of two most Earth-like exoplanets discovered to date that “could be within the ‘Goldilocks zone’ that would permit life to exist,” according to AS USA.
Discovered in 2015...
“The Eagle has landed,” uttered Neil Armstrong as the lunar vehicle touched down on the surface of the moon. The date was July 20, 1969, and America just made history: Humans stepped foot on the moon....
Bella Nieto, Assistant News Editor
• November 6, 2020
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to build a rocket — just a group of eight UTSA students who were recently selected to be a part of the NASA Student Launch challenge, which gives aspiring rocketeers...
Dr. Firouz Naderi, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), visited UTSA and spoke about past and future Mars missions on Feb. 7. Naderi worked in NASA’s JPL for 36 years, and before he...
On April 10, UTSA, along with Harvard, Purdue and the University of Connecticut, announced their partnership with NASA to begin building space habitats that can sustain human life on the moon and Mars....
President Trump’s 2018 federal budget proposal aims to eliminate the McNair Scholars Program, a Federal TRiO Program designed to prepare undergraduate students from disadvantaged and underrepresented...
“Space. The Final Frontier.” So begins "Star Trek" a television show about humans communicating with alien species across the galaxy via space travel. Once, space travel was a dream, a creative imagining...
It was 43 years ago this week that the United States launched its third mission of lunar exploration, a mission that is more famously known as Apollo 13. Because of an explosion on one of the rocket’s...
This coming Friday, Feb. 1, will mark a tragic anniversary for the American people. It was on that day in 2003 that the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over the pine curtain of east Texas and western...
