Space

mars' surface with the left side of the image toned yellow and the right side blue

Astronomy

NASA shares colorful “postcard” of Mars’ surface

NASA has used photos taken by the Curiosity rover to create a gorgeous “postcard” of the Martian landscape.

Kristin Houser

a crowd of young people with their backs to the camera watching a rocket fly through the air in the distance

Aerospace

Students build reusable rocket, win $5,000 from NASA

The University of Alabama in Huntsville has won Student Launch 2023, NASA’s annual rocket-building competition.

Kristin Houser

an illustration of a capsule reentering Earth's atmosphere

Aerospace

SpaceX successfully launches world’s first “space factory”

SpaceX has successfully deployed a “space factory” developed by startup Varda Space Industries to manufacture drugs in microgravity.

Kristin Houser

a colorful MRI scan of a brain with a background of stars

Aerospace

Visiting space likely won’t cause permanent brain damage, says NASA study

Spending months in space has a major impact on astronauts’ brains, but three years back on Earth appears to reverse the change.

Kristin Houser

Outer Space

How the world’s most sensitive yardstick reveals secrets of the universe

When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Here's the tool that measures the resulting waves.

Chad Hanna

an illustration of a black hole. a black circle is surrounded by a spiral of red and orange

Astronomy

New NASA video shows just how big black holes really are

A new NASA animation puts the size of 10 supermassive black holes into perspective by comparing them to our solar system.

Kristin Houser

Outer Space

NASA spots an enormous water plume erupting on Saturn’s ocean moon

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers are gaining new insights into Enceladus, which holds a sea beneath its icy surface.

B. David Zarley

Outer Space

How to terraform Mars, without nukes, on a budget

Terraforming Mars has been a dream for decades; here’s how we might get it started today.

Tom Ough

Astronomy

Understanding just how big solar flares can get

Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions.

Christopher Crockett

an illustration of a radio telescope in a lunar crater

Aerospace

A massive moon telescope could solve the mystery of the “Cosmic Dark Ages”

NASA hopes a massive radio telescope on the moon will be able to reveal what was happening during the mysterious “Cosmic Dark Ages."

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

For the first time, astronomers have detected a radio signal from the massive explosion of a dying white dwarf

Patience and persistence pays off in ways researchers never expected, allowing them to hear the dying whispers of a distant star.

Erik Kool and Stuart Ryder

an illustration of a planet covered in active volcanoes

Astronomy

Astronomers find Earth-sized planet covered in volcanoes

An Earth-sized exoplanet 90 light years away may be covered in active volcanoes — and home to extraterrestrial life.

Kristin Houser

an artist illustration of the spitzer space telescope

Aerospace

NASA’s last “Great Observatory” could be coming out of retirement

A startup’s audacious plan to revive NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope just secured a $250,000 Space Force contract.

Kristin Houser

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