Four days before the shock announcement of her death at age 80 on Tuesday, country music’s long-reigning queen Dolly Parton had given fans one final glimpse behind the rhinestones. In a short interview with People magazine, the singer admitted the strain had been taking a toll. Her husband, Carl Dean, had died…
Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires more than engineering talent. It requires planning for an uncertain future:…
Tim Curry dead at 80: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Home Alone 2 and IT star passes away
Legendary film and TV actor Tim Curry has died at the age of 80. The star, best known for playing Dr Frank-N-Furter in cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died at his home in Los Angeles last night – his manager confirmed today. A cause of death was not…
NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. Pilots from NASA’s Johnson Space Center flew the WB-57F high altitude…
Jill Lepore on why Silicon Valley gets science fiction wrong
The story always goes the same way: guy meets girl, guy explains he’s here from the future to stop the robot apocalypse, and guy and girl fall in love and fight off the robot overlords. The end. But historian Jill Lepore is interested in the part that gets skipped: How…
Pictured: Girl, seven, and her aunt who were ‘murdered’ in Middlesbrough house fire: Two men are arrested over ‘arson’ feared to be ‘gangland revenge attack’ linked to youths killed in A66 crash
A seven-year-old girl and her aunt who were killed in a house fire, feared to be a gangland revenge attack linked to the A66 crash, have been named and pictured. Valentina Foster, seven, and Natalie McDonald, 34, died in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of…
At least 54 Americans and hundreds of tourists missing in unstoppable floodwaters in Nepal
At least 54 Americans are among the hundreds missing after devastating flash floods swept through the Nepal-Tibet border following a catastrophic landslide. A total of 579 people are missing, according to figures from the Nepali police. Of that total, 54 people are from the US and 33 are from the…
Contractor to Civil Servant: NASA Welcomes Jeret Howard
At 17, Jeret Howard raised his right hand to serve his country as a United States Army combat medic in Iraq. This past summer, he raised his right hand again at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Hired as a civil servant under the agency’s workforce directive…
Disturbing guillotine discovered in back of pick-up truck outside Supreme Court
United States Capitol Police arrested a California man on charges of carrying a dangerous weapon after his pickup truck was found illegally parked outside the Supreme Court – with a guillotine in the back. USCP officials said the man, 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le, drove from his home outside San Diego to…
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercial partners better understand the science of lunar landings, specifically the hazards that may…