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NASA's new project will let you 'patrol' outer space for new planets
You can now help discover new worlds beyond our solar system from the comfort of your home, thanks …
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NASA just gave $44 million to 6 private companies - including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin - to develop 'tipping point' space technologies
The biggest winner of the competition was United Launch Alliance, formed by Boeing and Lockheed Mar…
Dave Mosher
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NASA confirms that it is working with Tom Cruise to make a movie shot in space
Last year, NASA outlined plans that would allow "private" or independent astronauts access to the I…
Rosie Perper
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An astronaut's complaint about the president perfectly captures what is wrong with NASA
Some have proposed that NASA's funding should be set in 5-year or 10-year budgets instead of yearly…
Kelly Dickerson
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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is suing NASA as the fight escalates with SpaceX over a lucrative moon-landing contract
Jeff Bezos' space company is taking NASA to federal court after it selected Elon Musk's SpaceX for …
Grace Kay
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NASA gave Nokia $14.1 million to build a 4G network on the moon
Astronauts will use the 4G wireless network to control lunar rovers, navigate lunar geography in re…
Grace Dean
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NASA Tested And Recovered This Insane Flying Saucer Mars Lander
Here the SIAD in action. It's essentially a big air brake intended to slow down a landing spacecraf…
Matthew DeBord
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Ad breaks in space: Estée Lauder's deal with NASA to promote skincare products on the International Space Station
Estée Lauder hopes to send up to 10 bottles of its popular "Advanced Night Repair" serum to the ISS…
Sophia Ankel
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NASA just picked 2 finalists for its next billion-dollar space mission - here's what the projects could accomplish
Dragonfly is a dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the environment on Titan to fly …
Hilary Brueck
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NASA detects a quake on Mars for the very first time — using sound
The seismic signal was recorded on April 6 — Insight’s 128th day on Mars — and it’s the first tr…
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The asteroid NASA is about to strike poses no threat to Earth, but 60% of city-killer rocks fly under the radar
NASA's DART mission is about to practice deflecting an asteroid away from Earth. But NASA can't pro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA awards SpaceX, Blue Origin, and 3 other companies $146 million in contracts to make moon lander designs
Both Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will design moon landers that NASA can use to r…
Kate Duffy
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NASA tells lawmakers that it wants to see moon landings occur annually for 12 straight years
The recent SpaceX contract marked the beginning of what would be a series of ambitious projects to …
Kevin Shalvey
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NASA astronauts will use Microsoft's futuristic HoloLens on the International Space Station
Astronauts have already tested HoloLens on NASA's Weightless Wonder C9 jet to make sure it can…
Matt Weinberger
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A record label is about to start shipping vinyl copies of NASA's famous golden records
"The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan," NASA's Je…
Dave Mosher
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How to get involved with NASA: Crowdsourcing ideas for Mars houses, robots, and space poop
Steve Radar, who looks after the Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) at NASA,…
Lindsay Dodgson
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NASA's Breakthrough Device For Landing Humans On Mars Has Hit A Major Testing Snag
In order to launch from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, the winds …
Dina Spector
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NASA wants to send humans to Mars in this giant flying saucer and it's about to take it for a test run - here's how to watch
The test flight involves the use of a balloon to transport the spacecraft high above Earth's atmosp…
Jessica Orwig
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This is what happens to space tomatoes that get lost on the International Space Station for 8 months
Two space-grown tomatoes lost by a NASA astronaut on the International Space Station earlier this y…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Erin Snod…
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is retiring after 16 years of incredible infrared imaging. It revealed nebulas and galaxies as we'd never seen before.
But as the telescope has floated in space, its systems have aged and battery life has diminished. T…