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July 5, 2017

Graduate student aims at lofty goals for honoring John Glenn

A graduate student from suburban New York has made it his mission to fight for a series of tangible honors for the late astronaut John Glenn, including a statue, a portrait and a having Glenn's Ohio birthplace on the National Historic Register.

June 30, 2017

Russia may launch the brightest 'star' in the sky

Russia is set to launch potentially the brightest artificial object in the night sky, which could outshine everything except for the Moon, starting next month.

June 29, 2017

NASA Orbiter snaps stunning 'Niagara Falls of Mars' pic

The incredible image shows where lava behave like liquid water on the surface of Mars.

June 27, 2017

Why scientists are fired up about futuristic space lasers

WASHINGTON — Pew, pew, pew! Epic laser battles with highly concentrated beams of deadly light punching through starship hulls, slicing off limbs — or instantly vaporizing spacecraft, bodies and even planets — have been a much-loved and time-honored tradition in science fiction for many decades.

June 26, 2017

NASA's Juno probe now orbiting gas giant Jupiter

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit late Monday, ending a journey of almost five years to the solar system’s largest planet.

June 26, 2017

NASA eyes close-up mission to Uranus, Neptune

New NASA mission ideas would study the gassy environments of Uranus and Neptune, two planets on the edge of the solar system that spacecraft have visited only once .

June 16, 2017

SpaceX's Mars colony plan: How Elon Musk plans to build a million-person Martian city

Elon Musk has put his Mars-colonization vision to paper, and you can read it for free.

June 15, 2017

Puzzling Saturn moon Iapetus shows two-tone face in NASA photo

Iapetus, a Saturn moon with jumbled colors, shows its strange surface shapes in a new view from the Cassini mission, which is currently exploring the gas giant.

June 14, 2017

Worm grows second head after being launched into space -- and then it does it again

If space travel wasn't hard enough, imagine trying to do it with two heads. A flatworm sent to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2015 as part of a biological study grew a second head after the first one had been partially amputated before launch.

June 13, 2017

Here's why astronauts baking bread in space is a big deal

When you think of the perks of becoming an astronaut, there's plenty to list: you get to see the Earth from a perspective that only few have shared, you're privy to new science discoveries before the public hears about them, and you get to be one of the few people who grew up to become something they wanted to be as a kid.