The true story of the African-American women at NASA who helped the US win the space raceByOlivia GoldhillPublishedSeptember 25, 2016
The year’s best astronomy photos prove you don’t need the Hubble to capture gorgeous scenes from spaceBySelina ChengPublishedSeptember 20, 2016
China just launched the world’s most accurate clock into spaceByKatherine Ellen FoleyPublishedSeptember 16, 2016
Now playing Here’s how to read the most detailed map of the universe ever madePublishedSeptember 14, 2016
Jeff Bezos has a plan to build an enormous new rocket and head for the moonByTim FernholzPublishedSeptember 12, 2016
Now playing Look: NASA reveals the closest images we’ve ever seen of JupiterPublishedSeptember 11, 2016
NASA’s latest mission will show if asteroid mining will be a real threat to the global platinum industryByLynsey ChutelPublishedSeptember 9, 2016
Now playing NASA is launching a mission to visit an asteroid and maybe save the worldPublishedSeptember 8, 2016
US and Russian astronauts make a picture-perfect landing in KazakhstanBySelina ChengPublishedSeptember 7, 2016
Now playing Scientists have made a major discovery about the most important dwarf planet you’ve never heard ofPublishedSeptember 6, 2016
An MIT astrophysicist explains what we’d see on a trip to Earth-like planet Proxima bBySara SeagerPublishedSeptember 6, 2016
The story of Philae, the little robot that flew across the solar system to land on a cometByAkshat RathiPublishedSeptember 6, 2016
Watch a rare double solar eclipse as seen from spaceByKatherine Ellen FoleyPublishedSeptember 5, 2016
Photos: This is the damage that tiny space debris traveling at incredible speeds can doByAkshat RathiPublishedSeptember 3, 2016
The 3.7 billion-year-old fossils discovered in Greenland might be proof that there’s life on other planetsByKatherine Ellen FoleyPublishedSeptember 1, 2016
SpaceX has found the first client for its reused—ahem, flight-proven—rocketsByTim FernholzPublishedAugust 30, 2016
A NASA-funded, year-long experiment in Hawaii to mimic life on Mars has come to an endByKata KaráthPublishedAugust 28, 2016
SpaceX’s biggest rival is developing “space trucks” to ferry cargo in an orbital economyByTim FernholzPublishedAugust 27, 2016
Now playing Scientists just discovered humanity’s best shot at seeing life outside our solar systemPublishedAugust 24, 2016
Watch astronauts installing an open-source airlock on the International Space StationByTim FernholzPublishedAugust 19, 2016