Space

T-Minus: $11B Mars rocks, Voyager 1’s resurrection, and more

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring NASA’s Mars rock request, the Dragonfly mission, and more.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

T-Minus: SpaceX’s military launch, a rocket family’s final flight, and more

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new kind of military satellite, the solar eclipse, and more.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

T-Minus: SpaceX’s first “Bandwagon” launch, NASA’s future moon vehicles, and more

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a new SpaceX service, a request for “moon time,” and more.

Kristin Houser

Asteroids

NASA updates the odds on Bennu asteroid hitting Earth

Using data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, NASA has updated its predictions about the Bennu asteroid impacting Earth.

Kristin Houser

Outer Space

Moon glass helps solve a lunar mystery

Analyzing moon samples from the 1980s with a new laser technique shows we were wrong about the moon’s magnetic field.

Teresa Carey

Outer Space

Scientists listen to marsquakes to map the inside of the planet

With information garnered from marsquakes, researchers have created the first complete image of the interior structure of Mars.

Teresa Carey

Astronomy

Astronomers catch “ghosts” dancing around radio galaxies

Astronomers with the EMU Project have released a spooky image of “dancing ghosts” emanating from a pair of distant radio galaxies.

Kristin Houser

Asteroids

Psyche asteroid might not be a planetary core after all

The first high-res heat emissions map of the Psyche asteroid suggests the hunk of metal might not be the core of a developing planet.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

NASA needs people to pretend they’re living on Mars

To prepare for a future in which astronauts are living on Mars, NASA is looking for people willing to live in a simulated Mars habitat.

Kristin Houser

Outer Space

NASA wants future humans to find this time capsule in space

NASA is sending a time capsule to space aboard the spacecraft Lucy, bound for the Trojan asteroids.

Teresa Carey

Astronomy

“Star shrapnel” from a supernova explosion is exiting the galaxy

A metallic star is hurtling out of the Milky Way, propelled by a supernova explosion triggered after it ate its partner star as a white dwarf.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

“The Blob,” a strangely intelligent slime mold, is going to space

A strange slime mold that can think despite lacking a brain is heading to the ISS as part of an educational experiment with French schools.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Space manufacturing startup plans to build first off-world factory

Space manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries has raised enough money to bring its dream of building the first space factory to fruition.

Kristin Houser

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