The International Space Station has a brand new astronaut hangout. On Saturday, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, with the help of mission controllers, expanded the new Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), a 13-foot-long by 10.5-foot-wide room now attached to the outside of … Read More
Last time Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket stuck its ocean landing, he released a jaw-dropping video. This time, Musk has outdone himself. The latest onboard view from the Falcon 9 booster will zip you from space to the ocean landing and … Read More
For the first time, scientists have directly detected a crucial amino acid and a rich selection of organic molecules in the dusty atmosphere of a comet, further bolstering the hypothesis that these icy objects delivered some of life’s ingredients to … Read More
A new mosaic pieced together by NASA scientists and captured by the New Horizons spacecraft shows off the most detailed view of Pluto many of us will ever see. The high-resolution mosaic shows a huge swath of Pluto as imaged … Read More
Teens on Earth are bad enough, but put one of them in space and you’re going to have some real problems. Well, at least that’s what the trailer for The Space Between Us seems to be telling me. The new movie … Read More
Traces of tsunamis on Mars are the newest clues yet that the Red Planet once had oceans, which could have supported life, researchers said. These killer waves might have been triggered by giant meteor impacts, scientists added. SEE ALSO: Photos: … Read More
The International Space Station hit a fun milestone on Monday. The station just surpassed its 100,000th orbit since the first component of the outpost launched to space in 1998. SEE ALSO: The International Space Station could get its own timeshare … Read More
She hasn’t even graduated from university, but Solange Cunin is already planning to send some very special cargo into space. At 23, Cunin is the cofounder of the startup Quberider, which has developed a program for high school students that aims … Read More
A strong solar storm impacted Earth from Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning, and it produced some incredible auroras for observers with clear skies in high latitudes. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction … Read More
Want to take a hike on Mercury? On Friday — about one year after the Messenger spacecraft ended its mission by crashing into Mercury — scientists released the first complete global elevation map produced by the long-lived spacecraft. The new … Read More