Latest Space Stories
Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves
Yes, a chunk of the space station crashed into a house in Florida
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way
NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables
The history-altering medical mystery of an astronaut who fell in the bathroom
Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station
Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills
Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together
Baby stars release gassy ‘sneezes’ while forming
Youth-stealing stars could explain ‘missing giants’ at the Milky Way’s center
ADHD may have evolved to give us foraging superpowers
The best star projectors for 2023
Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality
What a total solar eclipse looks like from space
The full sensory experience of eclipse totality, from inside an Audi convertible
14 stellar photos from the 2024 total solar eclipse
How to look at the eclipse without damaging your eyes
Could a self-sustaining starship carry humanity to distant worlds?
In 1919, one eclipse chaser wanted to mount a telescope on a seaplane
How to make a pinhole camera to watch the solar eclipse
It’s on! Three finalists will design a lunar rover for Artemis
NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon
Older galaxies are more chaotic
A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot
April skygazing: A total solar eclipse, a meteor shower, and the Pink Moon
How to photograph solar eclipse: The only guide you need
Japan’s SLIM moon lander survives a second brutal lunar night
This is the most cosmically perfect time in history
How to photograph the eclipse, according to NASA
Don’t miss your chance to see the cryovolcanic ‘devil comet’
Carl Sagan in 1986: ‘Voyager has become a new kind of intelligent being—part robot, part human’
The buried treasure that helped take us to the moon
NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipse
NASA’s asteroid blaster turned a space rock into an ‘oblong watermelon’
For nearly $500,000, you too can have dinner in the ‘SpaceBalloon’ above Earth
Why do solar eclipses happen?
Uranus is a grizzly bear: Understanding planet mass using animals
Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams
Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?
‘Space headaches’ could be a real pain for astronauts
15 captivating photos of auroras seen from space
‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck
How lightning on exoplanets could make it harder to find alien life
NASA’s astronaut applications are open again. Do you have what it takes?
Listen to three breathtaking NASA images
Watch the plasma fly in space capsule’s dramatic fall to Earth
March’s skies shine with the worm moon, a bright Mercury, and penumbral lunar eclipse
Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s
Odie the lunar lander is not dead yet
NASA and Google Earth Engine team up with researchers to help save tigers
Astronomers discover new moons orbiting Uranus and Neptune
SLIM lives! Japan’s upside-down lander is online after a brutal lunar night
Apollo 17: Looking back at the last time the US landed on the moon
What we should think about before terraforming alien worlds
NASA wants you to record crickets during April’s solar eclipse
JWST detects evidence of a neutron star in fiery supernova remains
‘Odie’ makes space history with successful moon landing
Delta’s solar eclipse flight sold out, but your best bet to see it is still down here
‘Odie’ snaps its first images of Earth on its way to the moon
Dead satellite hurtles towards Earth in new grainy images
Fastest-growing black hole eats the equivalent of one sun a day
How to apply for NASA’s next Mars habitat simulation
Water molecules detected on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time
First remote, zero-gravity surgery performed on the ISS from Earth (on rubber)