Where the rover leads, humans will follow—sooner than any of us think.
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.
The moon rock that now sits in President Biden's Oval Office has a (very) long and storied history.
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.
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.
The Saturn and Jupiter Systems converge in the night sky.
From pulp science fiction, to political squabbles, to grand visions and human tragedy, the Station is our short documentary on the history and future of the ISS — our improbable, fantastical home amongst the stars.
Actress Felicity Jones and Astronaut Nicole Stott share a love for space and discovery.
SpaceX launches its 21st resupply run to the international space station for NASA.
Cathy Ang, star of Netflix’ Over the Moon, on what drew her to a story of lunar goddesses and garage-built rocket ships.
We haven’t just lost a great observatory. We’ve lost an iconic structure in the midst of mountains and jungle, from where we first reached out to the Universe to say hello.
A brief history of boozing in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX Launches an ocean-monitoring satellite for NASA and its European partners.
SpaceX performs the first privately-flown crew rotation to the International Space Station.
Supercluster Explains is our ongoing series of experimental animated shorts. Each episode tackles one of our favorite mind bending space concepts in 60 seconds or less.
Going to space changes the way people view Earth. The more people who can have that experience, the better.
Johnson Space Center Communications Specialist Leah Cheshier heads to SpaceX headquarters to host a livestream of NASA's next crew launch to the space station.
Jack Parsons was one of the most influential figures in the history of the American space program. He was also a Marxist, stood accused of espionage, and held a deep fascination with the occult.
SpaceX launches a fourth GPS-III satellite for the U.S Space Force from Cape Canaveral
Supercluster's spaceflight photographer Erik Kuna hits the road to New Mexico and discovers an otherwordly vista.
The Astronaut Database is the most complete, interactive record of every living thing to leave planet Earth. It wasn't easy to build.
A stunning sunrise liftoff of the Falcon 9 ends a rough stretch of launch scrubs and delays on Florida's historic space coast.
Scrolling the homepage of Hypergiant.com, you might feel like the future is finally here, while not really knowing exactly what you’re looking at.
Meet Pooja Jesrani, NASA's first South Asian female flight director, tasked with keeping ISS astronauts safe from back here on planet Earth.
Europa is not easily explored. It is a pitiless Thunderdome, setting humanity’s best engineers against the solar system’s most vexing planetary system.
Our planet has become so “loud” in the part of the radio spectrum observed by SETI that it threatens to drown out any signal sent from an extraterrestrial civilization
There’s a soccer team that brings space engineers from around the country together on the field. Not as adversaries in a race to the moon or Mars, but as a team — united.
Ronald McNair was just 35 years old when he died aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle. That tragedy ended a brilliant life spent conquering adversity.
The Survival Goggles, Sun Bonnet, and Quilt are a painstakingly handmade homage to the Apollo survival missions of August, 1964.
The International Space Station is a modern marvel of engineering. Designing it was a nightmare.
SpaceX launches the first Polar Orbit mission from Cape Canaveral since the 1960s.