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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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man sitting in an airplane seat under linear acceleration

Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel

The Mars Jezero crater

Life could be hiding deep under Mars

By Leto Sapunar

medical exercise

What Happens If You Have A Heart Attack In Space?

By Rose Pastore

Space Shuttle Era

The Space Shuttle Era’s Best Images

NASA’s Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon On Monday

By Rebecca Boyle

The Man Who Fixed Hubble

The Man Who Fixed Hubble

By Shannon Stirone

"Mars spiders," formations caused by underground carbon dioxide fizzing to the surface in springtine.

Scientists brought ‘Mars spiders’ to Earth—here’s how

A fissure in the Cerberus Fossae formation on Mars.

Mars may have had recent volcanic eruptions—which is great news for finding life

By Leto Sapunar

Earth from space

NASA Is Sending Some Lucky Yeast Into Radiation-Filled Deep Space

By Shannon Stirone

Asteroid Bennu floating in black space.

Megapixels: Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zoom in on its asteroid target

By Jillian Mock

A model of the next Interstellar Probe.

This new space probe will go farther and faster than any before, gathering data for generations

By Charlie Wood

An artist's illustration depicting Voyager 1 in interstellar space

How the most distant object ever made by humans is spending its dying days

astronaut on spacewalk

Ask Us Anything: What happens to your body when you die in space?

By Shannon Stirone

An illustration of the Mars Perseverance rover in the background and the Ingenuity helicopter in flight in the foreground.

Ingenuity flew on Mars. Now NASA will push it to the brink of destruction.

By Charlie Wood

exploring moon caves

We could live in caves on the moon. What would that be like?

The METL bike tire on a bike with the sky in the background

These airless bike tires rely on a metal alloy designed for NASA rovers

By Stan Horaczek

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How scientists colorize Hubble’s deep space photographs

By Jeanette D. Moses

A brief history of spacewalks

A brief history of spacewalks

By Jason Lederman

The NASA STS-39 shuttle crew in orange astronaut suits on a space backdrop

What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?

By Scott Murdock/Task & Purpose

Perseverance rover SHERLOC

Was there ever life on Mars? Perseverance’s SHERLOC laser sniffs for microscopic clues

By Charlie Wood

PXLR, Perseverance Mars rover camera instrument

Perseverance’s giant ‘hand lens’ will scour Mars for signs of ancient life

By Charlie Wood

The MOXIE instrument before it was lowered into NASA's Perseverance Rover, which is currently settled on the surface of Mars.

With MOXIE, Perseverance will try to make oxygen on Mars

By Charlie Wood

Mars' surface, in high-resolution and color, as captured by the Hazcams on NASA's Perseverance rover.

See Mars through Perseverance’s eyes

11 eye-opening images from NASA’s Mars missions

An artist's interpretation of Perseverance, NASA's newest Mars rover, parachuting down from orbit.

Watch the Perseverance rover complete its dramatic landing on Mars

By Charlie Wood

An overhead view of Mars featuring peculiar dark streaks.

Mars’s mascara-like streaks may be caused by slush and landslides

By Charlie Wood

Masha Krasnova-Shavaeva illustration

How NASA kept its Mars rovers alive long past their expiration dates

By Charlie Wood

An artist's impression of the Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars.

NASA’s Mars helicopter may soon be the first to fly on another planet

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Interacting galaxies seen among stars through a telescope

Behold six galactic collisions, masterfully captured by Hubble

By Jessica Boddy

A close-up view of Tithonium Chasma, which is feature of Valles Marineris, the solar system's largest canyon.

Peer inside the solar system’s largest canyon

By Jessica Boddy

The Kepler supernova was spotted in 1604. Four centuries later, material from the explosion is still expanding outward at more than 20 million miles per hour.

Stars are dying all across the galaxy—why don’t we see them?

By Charlie Wood

This image of Caldwell 45, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, provides a larger view, showing more of the galaxy. The bluish color swirling around the galaxy’s center indicates the presence of young, hot stars in Caldwell 45’s spiral arms.

Celestial objects you can spot from your backyard

By Jessica Boddy

Artist's impression of flare from our neighboring star Proxima Centauri ejecting material onto a nearby planet.

Violent space weather could limit life on nearby exoplanets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Arecibo’s disk suffered damage in November, before the suspended receiver collapsed completely in December.

The Arecibo Observatory collapsed this week. What now?

By Charlie Wood

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon

By Charlie Wood

Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Kopra on a Dec. 21, 2015 spacewalk.

Spaceflight affects the human body in two major, peculiar ways

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The Crew-1 crew. From left to right, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

SpaceX and NASA officially flew people into space. What’s next?

By Charlie Wood

An artist's representation of the kilonova spotted by telescopes like Hubble. Kilonovas are as much as 1,000 times brighter than typical novas.

This ‘kilonova’ shines so bright, it defies the odds

By Jessica Boddy

Jezero Crater, the destination of the Perseverance rover, is one of many sites on Mars where ancient water flowed, suggesting that the planet once had a thicker atmosphere.

Mars died billions of years ago, and its guts are still spilling into space

By Charlie Wood

In this microscopic image, Sphingomonas desiccabilis is growing on basalt.

These rock-eating microbes could help us settle the Moon and Mars

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The moon is in line to get LTE.

The moon will soon have cell service

By Charlie Wood

a panoramic of the milky way

Meet the disk-shaped halo of hot gas you currently live in

By Kate Baggaley

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx in the sky over a rendering of the ground on asteroid Bennu

Watch live as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snags a chunk of asteroid

By Rachael Zisk

Artist's conception of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

Local asteroid Bennu used to be filled with tiny rivers

By Charlie Wood

This rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) on Jan. 9, 2014, and also performed a resupply to the ISS—though it did not carry new toilet hardware.

Watch live as NASA launches a $23 million toilet into space

By Rachael Zisk

The photo was taken by NASA’s camera EPIC, which takes pictures of the planet every two hour from NOAA’s satellite DSCOVR. You can spot the plume of wildfire smoke off the west coast of the United States.

West Coast wildfire smoke is visible from outer space

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide.

These black holes collided so hard they made space-time jiggle

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The bacterial exposure experiment took place from 2015 to 2018 using the Exposed Facility located on the exterior of Kibo, the Japanese Experimental Module of the International Space Station.

Clumps of bacteria could spread life between planets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Artist’s impression of the thin stream of stars torn from the Phoenix globular cluster, wrapping around the Milky Way (left). Astronomers targeted bright red giant stars (artist’s impression, right) to measure the chemical composition of the disrupted Phoenix globular cluster.

A local stellar graveyard could reveal our galaxy’s beginnings

By PopSci Editors

In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.

Watch NASA launch its next rover to Mars

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Astronauts having fun

For astronauts in space, play is a way to stay safe

By Amy Schellenbaum

NGC 2275, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory

By Candice Wang

On January 4, 2011, the Hinode satellite captured these breathtaking images of an annular solar eclipse.

You may be able to spot a ‘ring of fire’ eclipse this weekend

By Candice Wang

These anaglyph images can be viewed with red-blue stereo glasses (or 3D glasses) to reveal the stars' distance from their backgrounds. On the left is Proxima Centauri and on the right is Wolf 359.

NASA’s New Horizons is so far away, it’s seeing stars from new angles

By Candice Wang

An artists interpretation of a telescope receiving radio bursts from deep space.

Astronomers spot repeating radio burst patterns from deep space

By Charlie Wood

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule sits atop its Falcon rocket, ready to launch.

NASA and SpaceX pulled off their first rocket launch. Watch every second of it here.

By Charlie Wood

Jerrie Cobb and Mercury

A brief history of menstruating in space

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Earth’s atmosphere

Wacky weather punched a new hole in the ozone—and it could happen again

By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media

This little NASA rover can conquer sand and steep hills

By Kate Baggaley

An artist's interpretation of what a ninth planet could look like.

Planet Nine might not be a planet at all

By Charlie Wood

Jupiter has a spooky new look in this sharp infrared photo

By Claire Maldarelli

NASA’s weird wing design could lead to futuristic, fuel-efficient airplanes

Two starts orbiting a black hole, as portrayed by an illustrator

Astronomers just found the closest black hole to Earth

By Charlie Wood

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.

Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

By Charlie Wood