SpaceX has completed the first privately-crewed orbital mission in history. Our team was there to capture it.
SpaceX has completed the first privately-crewed orbital mission in history. Our team was there to capture it.
The development of sophisticated gene-editing technologies has opened up the possibility of bringing the woolly mammoth back to life and rewilding it in its former Siberian stomping grounds.
After Soviet Russia launched Sputnik 1, some in the US Military wondered: "You know what? Why not nuke the moon."
The vistas of Utah offer an escape to our own cosmic neighborhood
Psychologist Jack Baird raises a disturbing possibility — the reason we haven’t heard from aliens is due to fundamental limits of the human mind.
The world's largest rocket is taking shape before its orbital flight
As soon as 2022, the UK might start launching rockets to space. Here’s how it’s going to happen.
Falcon 9 boosters will land on a new droneship in the Atlantic
The people who decided to build their own rocket ships will be some of the first to fly. That's a good thing — for the rest of us.
This year ‘Wally Funk,’ will make history. She was a member of the Mercury 13, and at the age of 82, she will become the oldest person to have traveled to space.
For the first time in history, America’s space agency is officially sponsoring a search for alien megastructures.
Yumna Majeed is fighting to promote the advancement of space technology in Pakistan, a nation she describes as still placing “more importance in astrology than astronomy.”
Jill Tarter, the inspiration behind Ellie Arroway in Contact, describes SETI as "searching a 9 dimensional haystack for a needle which may not exist."
A 1955 Disney series helped spark public imagination in space. The connection is stronger than ever.
Record-holding veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson and John Shoffner, a pilot and race car driver, will lead Axiom Space’s Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station.
Scientists suspect molten iron erupts from volcanoes somewhere in the galaxy. But ferrovolcanism, as it’s technically known, has never been spotted.
X-energy is working on an advanced nuclear reactor that could open the solar system to crewed exploration.
Space Shuttle veteran Mike Massimino is joined by For All Mankind star Joel Kinnaman to talk the Cold War and Humanity's future in space.
Just like us mere Earthlings, Astronauts work regular hours, and when the weekend rolls around, it's time to unwind.
Amidst all the metal and mechanics of our Mars rovers exists the growing presence of artificial intelligence.
In November, Mark Kelly became the fourth astronaut to be elected to Congress — nearly as unlikely as the average American landing on the moon.
Track every spacecraft currently docked to the International Space Station, arrival and departure times, current crew, location in orbit, and ongoing experiments.
SN10 sticks the landing then exits the stage with a bang.
Scientists have been puzzled by puffy gas giant "cotton candy" worlds for years. Then came WASP-107b, the world that shouldn’t exist.
Where the rover leads, humans will follow—sooner than any of us think.
Why American, European, Canadian, and Japanese space travelers are called 'astronauts' is a little mystifying — and a little lost to history.
Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object to enter our solar system. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests it could be the remnants of an alien solar sail.
In March of 2020, SETI@home went quiet. But after twenty years, the project is only just beginning.
In 2008, of all NASA’s programs, the one most troubling to Lori Garver was Constellation. Billed in 2004 as "Apollo on steroids," the program was a long-term, station-moon-Mars plan for human spaceflight.
The moon rock that now sits in President Biden's Oval Office has a (very) long and storied history.
SpaceX is preparing the Starship SN9 prototype for launch
Spiral Graph is a citizen science project hunting distant spiral galaxies for a mysterious and rare species of black hole.
Construction on the ISS marked the end of another era: The Space Race.
When things go sideways, NASA turns to its biomedical engineers, who are responsible for developing systems that safeguard our space explorers in orbit.
Two-time Space Shuttle astronaut Alvin Drew is joined by Selma and Lincoln alum David Oyelowo to discuss space exploration, culture, and David's new Netflix movie, The Midnight Sky.