NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is carrying a 1909 "VDB" Lincoln Cent, for use as a calibration target for one of the 1-ton robot's cameras. | Continue reading
Asteroid mining could shift from sci-fi dream to world-changing reality a lot faster than you think. | Continue reading
NASA and its European counterpart announced they detected a small leak aboard the International Space Station late on August 29. | Continue reading
NASA's new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, sat down with Space.com and other outlets to discuss his priorities for NASA going forward. | Continue reading
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series. | Continue reading
Now we know how Stratolaunch Systems plans to get satellites to orbit. | Continue reading
It's now been more than two months since NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover last phoned home. | Continue reading
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B miniature space plane has winged past 340 days of flight performing secretive duties during the program's fifth flight. | Continue reading
The object has caught scientists' eyes by being strange in multiple different ways. | Continue reading
What is screaming at Earth from deep space? Aliens, black holes and supernovae are not out of the question. | Continue reading
Here's everything you need to know about the mysteries NASA's Parker Solar Probe is designed to solve. | Continue reading
Early this morning, Mars made its closest approach to Earth since 2003 — but if you missed it, the Red Planet is still a magnificent sight to see in the sky. | Continue reading
Could we make Mars Earth-like? Not with existing technologies, one new paper suggests. | Continue reading
Our Milky Way had a pretty sizable sibling long ago — until neighboring Andromeda tore the unfortunate galaxy apart, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
The UK Space Agency has launched a public competition to name the U.K.-built ExoMars rover, which is scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet on a life-hunting mission in 2020. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered 12 previously unknown moons orbiting Jupiter, and one of them is a real oddball. | Continue reading
An asteroid-warning telescope in Hawaii showed its chops last month, spotting an incoming space rock about 5 hours before the interloper smashed into Earth's atmosphere. | Continue reading
On July 30, Mars reaches opposition with the sun, meaning the Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth since 2003. Here's what to expect as Mars grows bigger and brighter in our sky this summer. | Continue reading
Scientists, engineers and mining technologists have begun blueprinting what hardware and missions are required to explore and establish a prospecting campaign for water ice at the poles of Earth's moon. | Continue reading
The twin mobile gantries at Launch Complex 17 were imploded Thursday (July 12), toppling the oldest standing launch pad structures at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. | Continue reading
Astronomers have traced a high-energy neutrino to its cosmic source for the first time ever, solving a century-old mystery in the process. | Continue reading
Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. | Continue reading
Earth is closer to the sun today (July 6) than at any other time of year. | Continue reading
Saturn's moon Enceladus appears to blast out complex organic molecules in its plumes. | Continue reading
NASA's last Saturn V rocket stage has been launched on a multi-day journey to become a roadside attraction in Mississippi. | Continue reading
As an intense dust storm rages on Mars, many are wondering — how bad can a Martian storm really be? | Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity rover is keeping tabs on the huge Martian dust storm that has sidelined its cousin on the other side of the planet. | Continue reading
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has identified a variety of organic molecules on the Red Planet's surface and found that methane levels vary seasonally in its air. The discoveries aren't proof of Mars life, but they're consistent with the idea. | Continue reading
NASA will hold a press conference today (June 7) at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) to unveil the latest discovery on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover. You can watch it live here, courtesy of NASA TV. | Continue reading
When NASA's Apollo 12 crew returned pieces of the Surveyor 3 probe to Earth in 1969, scientists found microbes inside. Now, a new investigation team knows how they got there. | Continue reading
Members of a NASA safety panel said May 17 they believed that a SpaceX approach for fueling its Falcon 9 rockets known as "load-and-go" could be used for future commercial crew missions. | Continue reading
Pluto may have long ago coalesced from 1 billion or so comets, a new analysis of data from NASA's New Horizons mission and the European comet-orbiting Rosetta probe suggests. | Continue reading
When SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA satellites Tuesday (May 22), it sparked a fire that melted a NASA camera. Here's what it looks like. | Continue reading
The laws of physics have won again, it would appear: The propellantless EmDrive engine doesn't actually generate any thrust, a new study suggests. | Continue reading
The company, funded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is quietly working to bring astronauts to and from the International Space Station. | Continue reading
The new "Block 5" Falcon 9, which debuted Friday (May 11) with a flawless launch and first-stage landing, will take rocket reusability to bold, new heights very soon if everything works out, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said. | Continue reading
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on May 10 went into detail on modifications made to the latest version of the Falcon 9, including redesigning a pressure vessel implicated in the rocket’s 2016 pre-launch explosion. | Continue reading
A nuclear power plant that could provide power for long-duration crewed missions has passed another developmental milestone at NASA. | Continue reading
NASA's Mars Cube One duo, officially known as MarCO-A and MarCO-B, checked in with their handlers Saturday afternoon (May 5), not long after launching from California along with NASA's InSight Mars lander. | Continue reading
Yes, the moon can appear blue in some circumstances, but the phrase ‘blue moon’ generally refers to two full moons occurring in the same month. | Continue reading
Some distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star's close flyby 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests. | Continue reading