Latest Space Stories
After two failed attempts, Boeing’s Starliner will try again this week to reach the ISS
From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves
Martian beavers, intentional explosions, and other weird facts from 150 years of PopSci
Don’t miss this weekend’s total lunar eclipse
We now have proof that plants can grow in moon dirt
Gaze upon the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy
With the arrival of Africa’s next radio telescope, Namibia sees a new dawn in astronomy
Why NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter briefly went dark on Mars
From the archives: NASA dispatches drone to help rescue the ozone layer
Take a peek at how Amazon is prepping Alexa for space
NASA’s 747 space observatory is reaching the end of its flight plan
The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to start blowing our minds
From the archives: ‘Do beavers rule on Mars?’
A fully aligned James Webb Space Telescope captures a glorious image of a star
Lunar soil could help us make oxygen in space
A helicopter caught and released a rocket this week
Why astronomers are blasting Earth’s location to potential intelligent aliens
How Popular Science covered ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in 1968
Expect NASA to probe Uranus within the next 10 years
Meteorites older than the solar system contain key ingredients for life
Jupiter’s largest moon wrestles for attention with its Big Red Spot
NASA’s new moon rocket is leaking fuel, but that’s not a setback
NASA is watching California’s groundwater crisis from space
Inside NASA’s plan to switch to private communications satellites
Astronomers just caught a ‘micronova’—a small but mighty star explosion
In its visit to Psyche, NASA hopes to glimpse the center of the Earth
A thousands-year-old meteor shower will peak in the night sky this week
This satellite has high hopes—the transformation of Finland’s space industry
The sleek, shiny transport van NASA never built
The biggest comet ever found is cruising through our solar system’s far reaches
Long spaceflights could be bad for our eyes
Liquid lenses could make NASA’s next space telescope even more powerful than Webb
Neptune is already an ice giant, but it might be having a cold snap
How researchers in a simulated moon habitat survived extreme isolation
SpaceX’s first paying ISS passengers say they’re not ‘space tourists’
This app turns your phone into a space weather forecasting tool
The most distant galaxy we’ve ever discovered might have closely followed the Big Bang
How harpoons, magnets, and ion blasts could help us clean up space junk
A rare gas is leaking from Earth’s core. Could it be a clue to the planet’s creation?
After 355 days in space, an American astronaut rides home on a Russian capsule
Hubble spies the most distant star ever found
Pluto’s icy volcanoes may have once belched ‘antifreeze lava’
What an extraterrestrial archaeological dig could tell us about space culture
Sorry, you can’t eat these popular foods on the International Space Station
Here’s why Saturn’s ‘ocean moon’ is constantly spewing liquid into space
NASA’s official exoplanet tally has passed 5,000 worlds
Why space lettuce could be the pharmacy astronauts need
In pictures: NASA’s powerful moonshot rocket debuts at Kennedy Space Center
Giant black holes and dark matter may share a hot origin story
Future astronauts and space tourists could rock 3D printed ‘second skin’
NASA is launching a new quantum entanglement experiment in space
Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024
What is a ‘Martian flower’?
10 Obscure-But-Beautiful Celestial Objects to Spy in the Night Sky
Travel to another galaxy with this vibrant 3D map of the cosmos
What would happen to a Tesla in space?
Ukraine was about to revive its space program. Then Russia invaded.
This kilonova could have created the first-ever extragalactic ‘sonic boom’
Why NASA’s pumped to watch a rocket smash into the moon
NASA’s experimental electric plane could take to the skies this year
A moon-watching robot can demystify what migrating birds do at night
These shape-shifting robots could make for great furniture in space
There’s a lot we don’t know about the International Space Station’s ocean grave
The inside scoop on Apollo 10’s infamous floating turd
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