Space

Animated countdown ending with "T:MINUS" over a background transitioning from red to blue, evoking the spirit of Mars missions.
Aerospace
T-Minus: How to not die on (the way to) Mars
A breakdown of the five biggest threats to future Mars astronauts and what NASA scientists are doing to overcome each one.
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
An image of the earth with stars in the background, featuring largest asteroid impact.
Asteroids
Evidence suggests the world’s largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia
Andrew Glikson
a gif of a satellite being placed into orbit with the T-Minus logo on top of it
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: Victus Nox, a record-breaking ISS mission, and more
Kristin Houser
the T-Minus logo over a gif of NASA's Mars 2020 mission on its decent to Mars
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: The end of O2 on Mars and the week’s other big space stories
Kristin Houser
Two men conducting ISRU research in a spacecraft laboratory.
Aerospace
NASA finishes the first experiment to make oxygen on Mars
Kristin Houser
An image of a spiral galaxy captured by the Hubble telescope.
Outer Space
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
Ethan Siegel
An image of a large antenna on a grassy hill used by SpinLaunch.
Aerospace
SpinLaunch will hurl payloads into orbit, cutting the cost of launch by 20x
Adam Frank
An artist's rendering of a space station equipped with a bag for capturing space trash
Aerospace
NASA is spending $850,000 to make a bag for space trash
Kristin Houser
Gamma-ray bursts from the milky way.
Outer Space
“Ghostly” neutrinos help us see our Milky Way as never before
Don Lincoln
An artist's rendering of NASA's X-ray observatory, XRISM
Astronomy
NASA’s next-gen X-ray observatory is ready for launch (Updated)
Kristin Houser
the Chang'E-4 rover on the moon
Astronomy
New moon map reveals structures hidden beneath the lunar surface
Kristin Houser