Looks like we got a good old fashion space race on our hands, this time not only between nations, as China, the U.S. and India…
SpaceX founder Elon Musk told us a little more about the company's plans to colonize Mars during a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC),…
Curious Droid examines the idea of humanity leaving Earth to start a new life elsewhere in the galaxy. First described in science fiction by Robert…
Elon Musk has been sitting on a trove of spectacular fail videos from the SpaceX archives. For a couple of years now, SpaceX has been…
The Cassini mission’s epic 13-year exploration of Saturn is coming to a close. On Sept. 15, the spacecraft will make a planned plunge into the…
On September 8, 2016, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. As the sun began to set over Cape Canaveral, OSIRIS-REx made…
Join NASA in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Voyager. With prominent engineers, scientists, and a guest appearance of Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner. "It…
Curious Droid shows us how NASA is looking at using airships to explore Mars and Venus. HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) would avoid the…
In this episode of The Verge's Space Craft, Loren Grush tries out some of the specialized machines astronauts use to workout in space to stay…
SpaceX is targeting launch of FORMOSAT-5 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. FORMOSAT-5 will operate in a…
The Verge's Loren Grush learns how NASA trains its astronauts before sending them to space. Simulating the space environment — either with a giant pool…
Loren Grush tries on innovative Mars and Moon space suits at the University of North Dakota campus, learning just how complex and restrictive a space…
Yesterday, SpaceX launched another Dragon Capsule using a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station ISS. Everything seems to have gone well and the…
The Voyagers have set numerous records in their unparalleled journeys. In 2012, Voyager 1, which launched on Sept. 5, 1977, became the only spacecraft to…
On July 19, 2017, SpaceX founder Elon Musk was interviewed at the ISS R&D Conference in Washington, DC. He also took questions from the audience.…
Landing on Mars isn't easy. Youtuber Minutephysics explains why. t all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you can do a powered…
This is a NASA seminar celebrating the fact that Curiosity has been roaming the red planet for five years. With speakers James K. Erickson and…
Private space company Moon Express says it will be mining the moon for delicious resources by 2020. If that sounds like a tight timeline, it…
For the last 50 years or so we have been using wheeled robots and vehicles to explore other worlds from secret Soviet lunar rovers to…
ESA astronaut Tim Peake gives a tour of the Columbus laboratory taken during his Principia mission in 2016. The Columbus laboratory is ESA’s largest single…