We have previusly written about The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, NASA’s Centennial Challenges program competition to build a 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the…
What's different about food in space? In this video by WIRED, Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino breaks down all the differences between eating on…
A new NASA planet-hunting spacecraft called TESS, which began science operations as Kepler was winding down, will give us thousands of new discoveries in…
Created by visual effects artists at Corridor Crew, a Los Angeles-based production company, the four-minute clip blends real-world imagery and cheeky animations to compare…
SpaceX recently updated the Falcon 9 page of its website with a new video showcasing some of the rocket's recent launches and landings. On…
The USSR did it in 1966 and the U.S. followed just four months later. China pulled it off in 2013 and again just recently, in…
China will follow-up its feat of becoming the only country to land a probe on the far side of the Moon with its second Mars…
Russia is a leading producer of natural resources and now plans to join Luxembourg in mining for minerals in outer space, Russian Deputy Prime…
After nearly a week in space and successful rendezvous with the International Space Station, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule traveled into Port Canaveral late Saturday and…
NASA astronaut Nicole Stott has yet to meet an alien, but that doesn’t mean she’s never pondered their existence. Alien life has been a…
The latest batch of images shows Bennu in staggering new detail from when OSIRIS-REx was just one mile above the surface. Since OSIRIS-REx reached orbit…
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on…
This visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from global elevation maps and image mosaics by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.…
Astronomers have discovered a distant body that’s more than 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Its provisional designation is 2018 VG18, but…
SpaceX is already leading the charge in commercialized spaceflight with a packed schedule of launches and partnerships with countless space agencies and private companies, but…
Virgin Galactic has been operating for a long time compared with other private spaceflight companies, but it had never actually flown in space before…
This is a NASA visualization that traverses the CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) field to showcase the varied appearances of galaxies and their three-dimensional…
By the end of last month, NASA announced that their future Mars rover March 2020 will land in the Jezero Crater on Mars. In…
After traveling through space for more than 2 years, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived on Monday at its destination, asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe ("Origins,…
Last week, NASA named nine U.S. companies that will compete for funding under the space agency’s renewed long-term moon program, a private-public undertaking to develop…