Here’s How to Bring Mars Down to Earth: Let NASA Do What NASA Does Best
Increasing NASA’s budget would ease pressure and allow it to dream even bigger
Increasing NASA’s budget would ease pressure and allow it to dream even bigger
A Stanford researcher is growing crystals on the International Space Station and electronics to withstand the extreme environments of Venus.
NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to a heavy-metal asteroid of the same name—a type of object that scientists have never seen up close before
For the third time in a year, coolant is leaking from a Russian module aboard the International Space Station
Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space
If it had hit Earth, this coronal mass ejection could have caused continent-scale blackouts, scientists say
TRAPPIST-1 could make or break the extended push to make red dwarfs an astrobiological priority
The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among paleontologists
The successful lunar landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission makes India only the fourth country to achieve the feat
Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in nearly a half-century, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes
In the latest chapter of an ongoing “moon rush,” Russia’s Luna-25 mission will attempt the nation’s first lunar landing in nearly 50 years
The Luna 25 spacecraft will attempt to land at the lunar south pole for the first time in a hunt for valuable water ice
Scholars look to understand how Americans view space activities
A glitch may have silenced NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft until mid-October—but a “heartbeat” signal offers hope for reestablishing contact earlier
We need satellites and rocket bodies designed with an end-of-life plan to keep space uncluttered and navigable
Explorers of space and the deep sea face similar dangers, but some differences make one realm safer than the other
Scientists are gearing up for a high-stakes finale to OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to snare a sample from an asteroid
After a failure in 2019, India’s second attempt to land on the moon comes as the nation signs on to a U.S.-led plan to shape future global lunar activities
At a stay in Biosphere 2, I went in skeptical but learned to understand why analog astronauts love what they do
Tiny spheres of once-molten metal magnetically dredged from the seafloor could be pieces from IM1, a potential interstellar meteor that struck Earth in 2014
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