This incredible zoom-out reminds us just how powerful Hubble really is
The Hubble Space Telescope is one of those things that seems like it’s always been around. Its mission, which just recently passed the 29 year …
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NASA bought junk aluminum in a 19-year scam that cost the agency over $700 million
NASA is staffed with some of the brightest minds in engineering, astronomy, and mathematics. You wouldn’t expect anyone to even attempt to pull the wool …
NASA delays SpaceX’s ISS resupply mission over space station glitch
It’s only been a little over a week since a static test fire of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon resulted in what appeared to be the complete …
We’re about to find out how prepared NASA and FEMA are for an asteroid strike
For years, big budget science fiction flicks have shown us highly stylized end-of-the-world scenarios involving asteroids. Sometimes the heroes have a plan to avert disaster, …
NASA plans to study this galactic ‘jellyfish’ with its new James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxies come in many different shapes and sizes, but you’d be hard pressed to find one more interesting than ESO 137-001. What the galaxy lacks …
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have self-destructed during engine testing
SpaceX has had a really fantastic 2019 thus far, with its crowning achievement being the successful launch, docking, and reentry of its Crew Dragon capsule …
NASA just sent robotic ‘bees’ to the International Space Station
Do robots have a place in the future of crewed space missions? NASA thinks so, and it’s not the only one. Late last year the …
NASA plans to send astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole in five years
NASA is moving forward with plans to send a crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2024, a goal that will be impossible to achieve …
NASA’s mission to ‘Touch the Sun’ just hit another major milestone
In 2018, NASA launched a mission to do something that scientists have never done before. The Parker Solar Probe mission is truly the first of …
NASA says it was behind the ‘alien’ lights that scared people in Norway
NASA has spent an incredible amount of time and money searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but it was NASA itself that caused some in …
Boeing’s Starliner is officially delayed, again
It hasn’t been a great year thus far for Boeing. The company has been dealing with a whole bunch of its commercial planes being grounded …
Here are NASA’s favorite 3D-printed Mars habitat designs
When mankind eventually makes it to Mars, it’s going to be a momentous achievement, but the travelers who first set foot on the Red Planet …
NASA is going to need more money to make Trump’s Moon dreams a reality
Last week, Donald Trump sent Mike Pence to relay a message to NASA demanding that the agency speed up its timeline for landing crewed missions …
How the International Space Station is helping find the cure to Parkinson’s disease
Health researchers around the world have been studying Parkinson’s disease for decades. It affects millions of people and, while doctors and scientists know a good …
India shot a missile at a satellite and now the debris might hit the International Space Station
You can’t exactly see it from down here on Earth, but there’s a whole lot of junk floating around in the space around our planet. …
This massive antenna is going to help NASA learn a lot about Europa
NASA has spent decades studying many of the planets in our solar system up close. Probes like Juno and Cassini have taught us a lot …
Watch NASA astronauts live on a spacewalk outside the ISS
NASA was forced to cancel a planned all-female spacewalk this week, replacing astronaut Anne McClain with fellow ISS resident Nick Hague due to a lack …
NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter just spotted a brand new ‘hot Saturn’
NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As we …
NASA spots ‘Space Butterfly’ giving birth to new stars
Our Sun is one of the big reasons we’re all here today. It provides much of the energy needed for life to exist, and without …
Trump desperately wants the US in another space race that simply doesn’t exist
Donald Trump threw NASA for a loop shortly after taking office when he directed them to find a way to get humans back on the …
NASA explains why it didn’t have enough space suits for an all-female spacewalk
This was supposed to be a history-making week for NASA, with the first all-female spacewalk originally planned to take place on Friday. Unfortunately, a last-second …
NASA’s Curiosity rover spots a bed of Earth-like pebbles
Most of the views of Mars we’ve seen have come from NASA’s trusty rovers, and while they’ve shown us some pretty stunning stuff, you can …
NASA forced to cancel first all-female spacewalk in history over wardrobe malfunction
For NASA, March 29th was going to be a history-making day at the International Space Station, with the first all-female spacewalk in human history. Astronauts …
NASA and ESA are paying volunteers to lie in bed for 60 days to test artificial gravity
Regardless of what your own personal idea of a dream job might be, you have to admit that being paid to lounge around in bed …
This incredible NASA snapshot reminds us how gorgeous Jupiter really is
Jupiter, the “king” of planets in our solar system, is a hostile place you definitely wouldn’t want to visit. The gas giant is a swirling …
Nobody knows if NASA’s OSIRIS-REx can pull off its daring asteroid-sampling maneuver
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it’s spent the first few months of 2019 …
Watch two NASA astronauts make repairs outside the International Space Station live
There’s been a lot of anticipation for the first all-female spacewalk which is rapidly approaching on March 29th, but before that historic adventure happens there’s …
Report claims Boeing has been forced to delay first Starliner launch by months
NASA needs a way to get astronauts to the International Space Station that doesn’t involve paying Russia heaps of money, so it struck deals with …
NASA wants to help you develop cool new space tech
It’s been decades since NASA and its government contractors handled everything in-house, but the recent push by the agency to bring private companies into the …
NASA put the electronic brains of the Mars 2020 rover through a torture test
Building a robotic vehicle that will eventually travel to another planet is a complicated undertaking. With just one NASA rover, Curiosity, currently roaming around on …
