Space

Students interested in designing, developing, building, and testing rovers for Moon and Mars exploration are invited to submit their proposals to NASA through Monday, Sept. 21.

Ancient mud cracks found by NASA’s Curiosity rover suggest that Mars underwent a repeated cycle of wet and dry spells that could have supported the emergence of life.

Virgin Galactic is flying its first space tourists — or ‘private astronauts’ as it likes to call them — on its VSS Unity sub-orbital spaceplane. The passengers aboard the craft with a Virgin Galactic crew are Jon Goodwin, an 80-year-old British Olympian who suffers from Parkinson’s, and Keisha Schahaff and […]

Between 1969 and 1972, astronauts from five Apollo missions placed seismometers on the lunar surface. In 2011, a group of NASA researchers led by Renee Weber used the resulting seismic data to get a picture of what lies at the Moon’s center. Their results inferred a solid inner core and […]

Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA’s Software […]

On Aug. 8, 2023, the four-member crew of the Artemis 2 mission got their first opportunity as a group to get up close with the Orion crew module that will take them around the Moon and back. In this members-only video, hear the full remarks from the crew as they […]

The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this wasn’t always the case – in its early years, the universe was filled with a fog of hydrogen atoms that obscured light from the earliest stars […]

Cool stars with powerful magnetic fields could have remarkably fast stellar winds that strip away their planets’ atmospheres, making even “habitable zone” worlds less friendly to life.

The Perseid meteor shower, the year’s most popular shooting star show, reaches its predicted maximum activity this weekend, with the Moon’s glare not such a factor this time around.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday carrying 15 second-generation Starlink satellites. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 8:57 p.m. PDT (11:57 p.m. EDT / 0357 UTC).