Latest Space Stories
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
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Paul Hayne / The Conversation
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Mar 2, 2022
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
See Hubble’s captures of real-life star wars
This miniature rocket could be the first NASA craft launched from Mars
Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns
Happy Mars-iversary, Perseverance
Virgin Galactic will fly you to space for the price of a house
The James Webb Space Telescope showed us its first star
We finally know why Venus is absolutely radiant
Our universe probably isn’t special enough to be in a multiverse
A solar storm blasted 40 SpaceX satellites out of orbit
NASA has big plans for space farms
Albert Einstein and Hubble may have helped us find an invisible black hole
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Adam McMaster and Andrew Norton / The Conversation
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Feb 8, 2022
What happens if you get diarrhea in space?
Hermes will be NASA’s mini-weather station for tracking solar activity
Early Mars was a long-lasting hell, meteorite study suggests
NASA’s storm-chasing planes fly through blizzards to improve snowfall forecasts
See the heart of the Milky Way as it’s never been captured before
Mysterious bright spots fuel debate over whether Mars holds liquid water
A meteorite-hunting AI will scout for space rocks buried in polar ice
Part of a SpaceX rocket is going to crash into the moon. It’s probably fine.
NASA’s James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space
We’re still in the dark about a key black hole paradox
Astronauts are losing 3 million red blood cells every second in space
Black holes have a reputation as devourers. But they can help spawn stars, too.
Do look up at this asteroid as it whizzes safely past Earth tonight
How the Earth’s 23.5-degree tilt gives us seasons
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Deanna Hence / The Conversation
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Jan 14, 2022
2021 was the sixth hottest year on record
Scientists wielded giant lasers to simulate an exoplanet’s super-hot core
Astronomers just mapped the ‘bubble’ that envelopes our planet