Space

With the ISS set to splash down, Starship aims to launch an entire commercial space station in one go

Starlab will go up in one single trip

'Moon disaster' speech that would have been read to world if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were stranded

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong completed one of humanity’s greatest-ever accomplishments, thanks to Apollo 11, but what if they’d been less successful and ended up stranded on the Moon? The Moon landing in July 1969 remains one of the pinnacles of human exploration. Of course, it had every chance of going horribly wrong on that […]

New NASA telescope will capture cosmic explosions older than the Milky Way

A new NASA telescope won’t just look at stars – it’s going to film them exploding in a way we’ve never seen before. Some of those ‘cosmic fireworks’ will be older than our entire galaxy, too. Launching in 2027, NASA’s new space telescope is being built to capture the most dramatic events in the universe […]

Earth is starting to spin faster and there are very real effects

This will affect everyone

NASA just hit a major milestone in building a rocket that can take off from other planets

NASA just completed a critical test on the second-stage motor that will power its Mars Sample Return rocket – a system designed to do something no NASA tech ever has: lift off from another planet. It’s a bold step toward the mission that aims to bring Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth. If […]

European Space Agency telescope will stare at stars for two years to see if we’re really alone in Space

It’s looking for Earth-like planets

NASA shared closest images of the sun in history captured by fastest spacecraft ever made

A record-breaking journey

First NASA crew-driven lunar rover in 50 years gets major tech upgrade ahead of Artemis V mission

NASA is preparing the first crew-driven lunar rover, known as an LTV, in over 50 years in advance of Artemis V. The Artemis Moon exploration program is getting close to launching a new mission to the lunar surface. Next year will see Artemis II launch a crew of four around the Moon. But NASA is […]

Message Earth sent to alien planet in 2008 will finally arrive in 2029, but 2050 is earliest for reply

ET phone home?

NASA spots heart-shaped patterns on Mars and some are shockingly perfect

Some of these hearts are geometrically perfect

Here's what it takes to be a NASA astronaut

The requirements aren’t totally out of his world

Former NASA employee broke long-standing silence about security footage of 'flying saucer' 30 years ago

He knows what he saw

NASA's mission to deflect an asteroid led to unexpected results with 'something unknown at work'

This mission had an unexpected outcome

Airport radars may accidentally be alerting aliens who are 200 light-years away, study claims

Imagine these aliens thinking, “these humans do travel a lot, don’t they”

Man who broke the speed of sound jumping from space to Earth shares the one 'very alarming' moment he faced

Felix Baumgartner jumped from space and broke the speed of sound

European Space Agency built two satellites that fake solar eclipses on demand

A total faux total eclipse