Space
Aerospace
T-Minus: New SpaceX fashion, a Mars mystery, and more
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring new spacesuits, a mission to the dark side of the moon, and more.
Kristin Houser
Three people in astronaut training suits and helmets smiling inside a spacecraft simulation chamber.
Outer Space
Life on Mars, together
Researchers spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station conducting an analog mission for potential future trips to Mars.
Rachel Ornitz | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | MIT News
A digital rendering of a martian landscape with rugged, reddish mountains and textured ground under a dark sky.
Outer Space
NASA hopes private space companies can rescue its $11 billion Mars rock mission
If this ambitious NASA mission unraveled, scientists would lose their chance to learn much more about the red planet.
Chris Impey
space rocks
Drones
Drones and AI recover a meteorite for the first time 
Kristin Houser
moon rock
Astronomy
NASA opens untouched moon rock container from 50 years ago 
Kristin Houser
martian rock
Aerospace
Curiosity discovers a “flower” rock on Mars 
Kristin Houser
Asteroids
An asteroid could wipe out an entire city – here’s NASA’s plan to prevent catastrophe 
Svetla Ben-Itzhak
Outer Space
NASA considers stingray-like drone to fly the skies of Venus
Stephen Johnson
dark side of a hot Jupiter
Astronomy
Hubble gets first good look at the dark side of a “hot Jupiter” 
Kristin Houser
Outer Space
A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won’t be the first. 
Alice Gorman
Artist’s impression of the AT2018cow
Outer Space
Record-breaking supernova manages to “X-ray” the entire Universe
Ethan Siegel
Proxima Centauri exoplanet
Astronomy
New exoplanet discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri
Kristin Houser
Outer Space
Scientists propose sending tiny lifeforms to neighboring solar systems 
Teresa Carey