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Twin Astronauts Are Helping NASA Learn How a Year in Space Changes the Human Body
Mark and Scott Kelly will be part of a living experiment
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Preparing for the Next Step in Manned Spaceflight
NASA prepares to send humans into deep space
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The First Meal Eaten on the Moon Was Bacon
Bacon has a long history in the American space program
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U.S. and Soviet scientists worked together throughout the Cold War, but now, because of Crimea, those ties are being cut
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It Once Took Tens of Thousands of Men to Recover an Astronaut from Landing
Splashdown support teams were absolutely massive
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The Story of NASA’s Jet-Propulsion Backpack
Thirty years ago, astronauts set out on the first untethered space odyssey
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Astronauts Are Really Sick of Houston, And Other Insights Gleaned From Spacefarer’s Diaries
Life in space is amazing and wonderful and beautiful and awesome, but sometimes it’s also really, really annoying
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NASA Wants to Take a Closer Look at the Water on Jupiter’s Moon
Part of NASA’s tentative 2015 budget includes planning for a mission to Europa
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That Dark Spot? It’s North Korea
In images taken on the International Space Station, the country of North Korea is barely visible at all
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This Satellite Just Returned From Circling the Sun, But NASA’s Lost the Ability to Talk to It
The style of transmitters that would let NASA talk to the spacecraft were taken out of commission
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Look Closely at This Picture of John Glenn
The reflected faces of NASA staff appear in John Glenn’s spacesuit
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International Space Station to Get a Four Year Life Extension
Then, in 2024, it has to crash into the ocean
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The Moon Belongs to No One, but What About Its Artifacts?
Experts call on spacefaring nations to protect lunar landing sites, not to mention Neil Armstrong’s footprints
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Buzz Aldrin on Why We Should Go to Mars
The Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon dreams of a future where Americans are the first to walk on Mars
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New Photos Show Stars on the Brink of Death and the Precipice of Life
Haunting images of spiral galaxy M106 and the stellar nursery of the Orion nebula capture the life cycle of stars
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What Did Playtex Have to Do With Neil Armstrong?
The astronaut’s lunar outfit was designed by the women’s bra manufacturer and inspired a series of space age fashions
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NASA Looks to Protect Historic Sites on the Moon
Scientists worry that a contest to send robotic rovers to the moon will threaten lunar landmarks
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NASA Spacecraft Samples a Snowing Moon
Saturn’s Enceladus is spurting water vapor, organic material and salt—a microbe-friendly composition
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Space Garbage: The Dark Cloud Above
A mass of debris from satellites and space missions is orbiting our planet—and it may be growing all the time
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