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

Robotics

Gecko gripper could clean up space junk

The Earth is circled by a sea of space junk, and it poses a danger to satellites and astronauts. We know we should...

Teresa Carey

Aerospace

Fridge for astronaut food aces first flight tests

Purdue University engineers have designed a fridge for astronaut food that could double its shelf life, potentially overcoming a barrier to longer missions.

Kristin Houser

Entertainment

Discovery Channel is looking for wannabe astronauts

The winner of Discovery Channel’s new astronaut competition series, “Who Wants To Be an Astronaut?” will spend eight days aboard the ISS.

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

See the most realistic simulation of star formation yet

A new simulation of star formation is the most realistic ever created, giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the birth of a star.

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

Radioactive plutonium from space found in Pacific Ocean

A rare form of plutonium has been discovered on Earth for the first time — and an exploding star appears to have helped it get here.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

China’s Mars rover nails landing

China’s Mars rover, Zhurong, has landed on the Red Planet, making China only the second nation to successfully land a rover on Mars.

Kristin Houser

Astronomy

Volcanoes on Mars might still be active

New evidence suggests that volcanoes on Mars may have erupted just 50,000 years ago, far more recently than previously thought.

Kristin Houser

Series| Just Might Work

Catching the most dangerous thing in space

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More than 8,000 tons of space debris orbit Earth, endangering our astronauts and satellites. Can we clean up space before it’s too late?

Jack Berning

Astronomy

Algorithm quickly simulates massive universes in high-res

A new algorithm lets astrophysicists produce high-res cosmological simulations of large parts of the universe far more quickly than was previously possible.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Why this scientist wants to grow fish on the moon

Researchers are finding out how to send fish eggs to the moon so that one day we will be able to farm fish on the lunar surface.

Teresa Carey

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