Space Travel
Adorable Drone Helps Document Experiments on the International Space Station
Cute as a button, the Int-Ball is taking over astronauts’ photographic duties
Space-Bound Humans Bring Fungus Aboard—And the Stowaways Could Cause Trouble
Microscopic life is everywhere, but it could be dangerous for future astronauts bound for Mars
Print, Then Heat for Self-Assembling Space Stations
With special ‘memory’ polymers, stents and space habitats could one day build themselves
Mars Surface May Be Too Toxic for Microbial Life
The combination of UV radiation and perchlorates common on Mars could be deadly for bacteria
What Space-Faring Flatworms Can Teach Us About Human Health
Their experiment had some weird results—and could one day help humans thrive in microgravity and back here on Earth
When We Go to Mars, Will We Have a Real-Life HAL 9000 With Us?
How generations of NASA scientists were inspired by an evil Hollywood supercomputer
How NASA Cut Costs With a New Kind of Spacecraft
With budgets for space exploration falling toward the end of the 1960s, NASA began to make plans for a new kind of reusable spacecraft to save money
New Photos Reveal What's Left Behind When a Rocket Travels to Space
Michael Soluri captures these strangely evocative traces of America’s heroic extraterrestrial journeys
New Zealand Sent a 3D-Printed Rocket to Space
Will the Electron usher in a new era for satellites?
The Future of Zero-Gravity Living Is Here
Entrepreneurs predict there will be thousands of us living and working in space. Our correspondent takes off to see what that feels like
Why Scientists Sent Mouse Sperm to the International Space Station
Back on Earth, a pile of new pups proves that mouse DNA can survive space
Why Morning Glories Could Survive Space Travel
The seed of the common garden flower could survive long journeys in space
Scientists Make Sturdy Bricks From Mars-Like Soils
Their findings may be a step forward in the mission to build structures on the Red Planet
Astronaut Peggy Whitson Breaks NASA Record for Most Days in Space
She has spent 534 cumulative days (and counting) in orbit
The First Manned Space Flight Was the Rocket Designer’s Victory as Much as Yuri Gagarin’s
Sergei Korolev designed the entire Soviet rocket program. But nobody knew his name until after he died
The Bizarre Story of Saddam Hussein’s Failed “Supergun”
It was called “Big Babylon” and it was originally supposed to fire satellites into orbit
Watch SpaceX's Recycled Rocket Stick Its Landing
The reused Falcon 9 booster rocket may usher in an era of cheaper and more frequent trips into space
France Wants You to Lie on Your Back for 60 Days in the Name of Space Research
But only if you’re a man
Before Velcro’s Patent Expired, It Was a Niche Product Most People Hadn’t Heard Of
The hook-and-loop tape's moment in the sun came after others were free to copy it
NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database
Now you can easily peruse more than 140,000 of the agency's photos, videos and visualizations
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