space exploration
NASA Is Sending Astronauts to Orbit the Moon by 2023
This is a delay from the original launch date to test the Orion capsule, which was planned for 2021.
Meet the Hollywood Prop Designer Making NASA's Spacesuits
He was so good at designing fake spacesuits that he was hired to do the real thing.
Buzz Aldrin Is Dead Set on Colonizing Mars
The Apollo 11 astronaut just opened a new space institute at Florida Tech.
Goodbye International Space Station, Hello Moon Village
ESA’s new director general lays out his vision for an international community on the dark side of the Moon.
Outbound from Pluto, New Horizons Calls Home
The first spacecraft to fly by Pluto re-establishes communication with Earth.
This GIF Shows Just How Much More Clearly We Can See Pluto Now
We’re seeing Pluto like we’ve never seen it before.
NASA's New Horizons Makes Pluto Flyby, Nine Years After Leaving Earth
The closest look at the dwarf planet we've ever had.
‘The Martian’ Is the First Realistic Movie About Martian Colonization
Too often, space flicks fall back on tired disaster movie tropes. Not ‘The Martian.’
NASA Got Hackers to Design a Zero G Drone for Space
It floats, walks, and grabs onto surfaces with little drone hands.
How NASA's Going to Look For Life on Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is often on the top of lists of "places beyond Earth to look for life."