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The latest on the US space agency's crafts, missions, and discoveries—from low-Earth orbit to deep space.

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A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken November 21, 2022, by a camera on the tip of one of Orion’s solar arrays. The darkest spot visible near the middle of the image is Mare Orientale.

You might be able to plant a tree from seeds NASA flew by the moon

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two NASA astronauts in a lunar crater.

Why do all these countries want to go to the moon right now?

The white Boeing Starliner capsule above a blue Earth.

Boeing’s struggling Starliner craft won’t fly astronauts until at least 2024

Two astronauts walking in spacesuits in a desert

How do you keep a spacesuit clean? One answer is antimicrobial fabric.

Two NASA lunar CADRE rovers parked on the ground

NASA gears up to send a trio of rovers to the moon in 2024

NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking across Tranquility Base with equipment after the Apollo 11 moon landing. Black and white photo.

Space junk is a precious treasure trove to some archaeologists

space shuttle endeavour blasts off

What it takes to display a 176,000-pound space shuttle in a launch configuration

A rotor in the middle of a large wind tunnel.

How epic wind tunnels on Earth make us better at flying through space

By Briley Lewis

Orange, fire-like clouds extend from a central star.

Astronomers spy cosmic dust, with a twist, from the very early universe

Hubble space telescope deep field view of ancient galaxies that helps answer the question: How old is the universe?

How old is the universe? Our answer keeps getting more precise.

By Charlie Wood

three electric vehicles for nasa parked in a row

Check out NASA’s fun new electric vans

By Harry Guinness

JWST composite image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, showing its core and part of a spiral arm. Clumps and filaments of dust, represented in a mossy green color, form an almost skeletal structure that follow the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm.

15 remarkable JWST images that reveal the wonders of our vast universe

VIPER moon rover coming down a ramp during a test at the NASA Ames Research Center

NASA’s quirky new lunar rover will be the first to cruise the moon’s south pole

Europa Clipper Propulsion Module

How to get your name engraved on a NASA spacecraft bound for Europa

Astronaut on ISS holding up water system filter replacement

Onboard the ISS, nothing goes to waste—including sweat and pee

NASA kills its electric plane’s flight plan, citing safety concerns

NASA kills its electric plane’s flight plan, citing safety concerns

R Aquarii binary star system

NASA turns spectacular space telescope images into vibey ‘cosmic sonifications’

nasa x-66a sustainable flight demonstrator

NASA’s ‘airliner of the future’ is now officially an X-plane

A mosaic of ocean world Enceladus, a geologically active moon of Saturn.

Every essential ingredient for life exists on an ocean moon in our solar system

A Boeing Starliner capsule approaches the ISS.

Boeing can’t catch a break as its Starliner spacecraft gets delayed again

Person underwater looking up at outer space to represent Blue Abyss training tank. Illustrated.

Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots

By Sarah Scoles

NASA Perseverance rover being readied indoors for launch for the Mars 2020 mission

A spacecraft engineer’s wisdom from Mars 2020 and a disaster-stricken island

By Elio Morillo

NASA's Psyche probe should blast off to an asteroid later in 2023.

NASA’s journey to a strange metal asteroid should finally begin in October

By Briley Lewis

Computer illustration of ISS with docket spacecraft

The ISS’s latest delivery includes space plants and atmospheric lightning monitors

An unidentified object makes an apparent atmospheric wake.

UFO data is honestly a mess, NASA panel says

SuperBIT high-altitude balloon with space telescope in the skies after its launch

A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter

Concept art of Blue Origin NASA Artemis V lunar lander on moon

NASA chooses Blue Origin to build Artemis V lunar lander

A new NASA study will put people through a brain-shaking ride in the Kraken

NASA's TeraByte InfraRed Delivery system satellite on a pedestal

A tiny NASA CubeSat just set a big data speed record with lasers

Skylab, America's first space station, orbits Earth.

Looking back at Skylab, NASA’s pioneering space station

Concept art of NASA EELS snake robot on icy surface of Saturn's moon, Enceladus

NASA hopes its snake robot can search for alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

A NASA illustration linking the moon and Mars.

NASA’s newest office is all about putting humans on Mars

NASA Ingenuity helicopter lost in a Mars crater in a photo taken by Perseverance rover

Name a better duo than NASA’s hard-working Mars rover and helicopter

By Briley Lewis

engineers working on voyager 2

How is Voyager’s vintage technology still flying?

By Popular Science Team

Computer image rendering of NASA RHESSI solar studying satellite above Earth

NASA’s 600-pound solar radiation tracker is plummeting to Earth tomorrow

Exoplanet KMT-2021-BLG-1898L b is a gas giant that looks like Jupiter but orbits a separate star. Illustration.

An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before

By Briley Lewis

Person in a dark room watering a houseplant with a beam of light. Illustrated.

How to grow plants in the dark

By Ellen Airhart

Callisto Jupiter moon in colorized NASA Galileo image

Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds could be cool travel destinations in the future

Magnetic field around sun's corona with NASA's Parker Solar Probe touching the edge. Illustrated.

Why is the sun’s corona 200 times hotter than its surface?

By Briley Lewis

Artist's concept of JUICE spacecraft at Jupiter

Follow the JUICE mission as it launches to Jupiter and its many mysterious moons

By Laura Baisas

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin photographed on the moon during Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong

Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity

Orion space capsule capturing surface of moon during NASA Artemis I mission

Before the Artemis II crew can go to the moon, they need to master flying high above Earth

Circled is the infrared afterglow of the BOAT gamma-ray burst and its host galaxy. Taken by NASA space telescopes.

A powerful explosion rocked space so hard, NASA called it the ‘brightest of all time’

By Briley Lewis

Artemis II astronauts in orange NASA and Canadian Space Agency spacesuits

Meet the first 4 astronauts of the ‘Artemis Generation’

By Purbita Saha

A blue UV image of the planet Saturn.

Saturn’s rings have been slowly heating up its atmosphere

By Laura Baisas

Colorful M19 star cluster in NASA Hubble Space Telescope image

How the Hubble telescope is keeping a 265-year-old stargazing project alive

This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds identified by the James Webb Space Telescope in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The planet is about 40 light-years away and orbits two stars that are locked in their own tight rotation.

Gritty, swirling clouds of silica surround exoplanet VHS 1256 b

By Laura Baisas

A telescope from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observe the universe.

Why scientists are studying the clouds of debris left in DART’s wake

By Laura Baisas

The secret to Voyagers’ spectacular space odyssey

The secret to Voyagers’ spectacular space odyssey

By Tatyana Woodall

Water on the moon highlighted in varying shades of blue from NASA SOFIA data

We finally have a detailed map of water on the moon

By Briley Lewis

Venus volcano in NASA Magellan spacecraft radar image

Venus could still be spewing lava, and scientists are hellbent on proving it

NASA Axios spacesuit helmet with a pulled-back visor with better visibility on the moon

NASA finally got comfier spacesuits, but astronauts still have to poop in them

WR 145 star in pre-supernova state with white bright core and red and purple dust and matter clouding around it. Taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope captures the beauty of a rare, violent phenomena

By Purbita Saha

Sun rays shining through clouds at sunset on Mars.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captures a moody Martian sunset for the first time

By Laura Baisas

DART spacecraft impact on Dimorphos asteroid in a computer model with yellow, gray, and black

5 ways we know DART crushed that asteroid (but not literally)

A close-up view of astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, photographed during the extravehicular activity (EVA) on the surface of the moon

Lunar dust is notoriously hard to clean, but a new spray might do the trick

Solar flare shooting out from left side of the sun seen in ultraviolet blue through NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

Hold onto your satellites: The sun is about to get a lot stormier

An optical image from the Keck-I Telescope superimposed on a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus.

Uranus’s quirks and hidden features have astronomers jazzed about a direct mission

By Briley Lewis

NASA evolved structure spacecraft part

NASA is using AI to help design lighter parts

An open-celled cloud formation west of Chile.

IBM’s AI has a new job: sorting through NASA’s giant stream of Earth and weather images

By Briley Lewis

The ISS as imaged by astronauts in the Soyuz capsule.

The ISS is the best place for an astronaut to get stuck in space

By Briley Lewis

NASA aims to fly its experimental electric plane this year

NASA aims to fly its experimental electric plane this year

This ‘airliner of the future’ has a radical new wing design

This ‘airliner of the future’ has a radical new wing design

Milky Way galaxy stars in infrared by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Our universe mastered the art of making galaxies while it was still young

By Briley Lewis