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
Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon
Aerospace
India makes history by landing on the lunar south pole
Kristin Houser
A black and white image of a robot with blue eyes and AI capabilities.
AI
Why aliens are likely to be AI
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
An image of the cosmos.
Outer Space
5 revolutionary cosmic ideas that turned out to be wrong
Ethan Siegel
A model rover driving over a rock
Aerospace
NASA is sending a team of autonomous robots to the moon
Kristin Houser
An artist's rendering of the Psyche mission spacecraft near 16 Psyche, an asteroid.
Asteroids
NASA mission to a $10,000-quadrillion asteroid is two months from launch
Kristin Houser
An image of a potentially hazardous purple rock.
Asteroids
Algorithm finds a potentially hazardous asteroid missed by NASA
Kristin Houser
A person is holding up a small circular solar cell made from lunar regolith.
Aerospace
NASA gives Blue Origin $35 million to turn moon dust into solar cells
Kristin Houser
A man exploring life on Mars standing next to a spacecraft in the desert.
Outer Space
NASA may have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars 50 years ago
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
A 3D view of the blobs in Earth’s mantle
Planet Earth
Theory proposes remnants of a destroyed planet lurk near Earth’s core
Tom Ough
A 3D rendering of a fusion rocket spacecraft.
Aerospace
A fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction
Kristin Houser