SpaceX will launch humans to space for the first time
Well, it all comes down to this. NASA has given SpaceX the thumbs up to become the first company in its Commercial Crew program to …
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Want to be an astronaut? NASA wants your application
NASA has increasingly relied on high-tech machines like orbiters, rovers, and landers to conduct much of its research in space. However, that doesn’t mean that …
NASA needs to decide which of these four missions is the most awesome
NASA has a lot of balls in the air right now, so to speak. From the Mars 2020 rover mission to the anticipated return of …
NASA is going to bring pieces of Mars back to Earth
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is definitely going to be one for the record books. The rover being sent to the Red Planet is capable of …
This #Nasabroom insanity sweeping social media is so dumb, it’s truly depressing
Welcome to the first truly stupid social media craze of 2020. If you opened Twitter at all on Monday, you might have been greeted with …
Boeing’s Starliner just can’t stop breaking
December 20th, 2019, was supposed to be a groundbreaking day for NASA and Boeing, with the latter’s Starliner spacecraft making its maiden voyage for the …
Watch the Mars 2020 rover’s laser in action
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will be the most complex and powerful piece of science equipment the space agency has ever sent to the Red Planet. …
NASA somehow managed to fix Voyager 2 from 11.5 billion miles away
When you’re trying to fix something, it helps to have that thing right in front of you. For NASA engineers, that’s often not possible, and …
NASA hero Christina Koch is back on Earth after setting several space records
Any astronaut that has the privilege of traveling to the International Space Station etches their name in the history books for all eternity. Inevitably, however, …
NASA’s solar probe won’t stop smashing records
In case you hadn’t been keeping up on NASA’s mission to “touch the Sun” with its Parker Solar Probe, let me get you up to …
NASA’s Sun probe just spotted something entirely new
Our Sun is vitally important to our continued existence, but it’s also a volatile object with a spicy personality. Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are …
OK, this is officially the coolest space selfie ever
Being chosen to take part in a mission aboard the International Space Station is an incredible honor. Only an impossibly small fraction of humans have …
NASA kills one of its most trusted satellites
With so many pieces of high-tech hardware at its disposal, it’s easy to forget that some of NASA’s most impressive machines are rapidly aging. The …
There’s very little chance the James Webb Space Telescope will meet its deadline
The saga of the James Webb Space Telescope is a long and sad one. The high-powered space-gazing tool has been in development for decades and …
Voyager 2 is acting strange, and it’s up to NASA to figure out why
It’s not often that a NASA mission is still up and running over four decades after launch, but the space agency’s Voyager twins are anything …
NASA and ESA want to see the Sun’s poles, but it won’t be easy
Over the course of human history, astronomers have spent a lot of time studying our nearest star. Telescopes on the ground can only see so …
‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanets are super weird
In the hunt for planets outside of our own solar system, scientists have spotted a number of interesting planet types that we simply don’t have …
NASA’s Kepler spots a star slurping up a planet
NASA’s Kepler space telescope is extremely good at spotting the subtle hints of distant exoplanets. It does this by detecting slight drops in the brightness …
Astronauts baked cookies in space and it took forever
One of the coolest things about being chosen for a mission to the International Space Station is that you get to carry out experiments that …
Uh oh: NASA’s Curiosity rover just suffered a puzzling glitch on Mars
It’s been a while since NASA was forced to pull the plug on its Mars rover Opportunity. The trusty bot fell silent after a dust …
The oldest crater on Earth was found in Australia
When we gaze out into our solar system and observe its several planets and many moons, one thing tends to be true of just about …
NASA narrows down Mars 2020 rover name to 9 finalists
In case you haven’t been paying much attention to NASA’s plans for 2020, let me get you up to speed on what is probably the …
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its historic 17-year mission
NASA has many tools at its disposal when it comes to making observations of distant objects in space, but one of the space agency’s most …
Watch this video of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 exploding in a blaze of glory
SpaceX had a very, very busy weekend. The company’s scheduled in-flight abort test was originally slated for Saturday but had to be delayed to Sunday. …
Watch live streaming video right now of NASA astronauts’ spacewalk
Nobody likes Mondays, but getting up and doing our jobs is just one of those things we have to do. The same is true for …
Boeing says its Starliner will be easy to refurbish
SpaceX has made a name for itself by producing space-faring hardware that is easily refurbished. The company’s Falcon rockets can be reused multiple times, reducing …
A 17-year-old NASA intern just discovered a brand new planet
I don’t know about you, but when I was 17 years old, I wasn’t doing very much planet-hunting. Wolf Cukier of Scarsdale High School is …
‘Mighty Mice’ that traveled to the space station are now back on Earth
Unless you’re incredibly fit, smart, and young, there’s very little chance you’d even make it into NASA’s astronaut training program, much less have an opportunity …
Doctors on Earth treated an astronaut’s blood clot in space
When NASA sends astronauts to the International Space Station, they’re always in tip-top shape. That’s a pretty significant requirement since there’s really no way to …
NASA’s Christina Koch just broke a record for women in space
NASA’s Christina Koch hasn’t been on Earth since March 14th, 2019. That day, Koch joined fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin of Roscosmos …
