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Russia Scraps Space Agency for a State-Run Corporation
Russia’s federal space agency will soon be no more
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Jettison Through Nearly 60 Years of Space Junk Accumulation
People have been leaving a mess out in Earth’s orbit
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China’s Lunar Rover Discovered a New Kind of Moon Rock
The Yutu Rover has discovered a type of basalt unlike anything else ever found on the moon
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Scientists Are Searching for Space Chemicals That Could Never Exist on Earth
Bizarre chemicals in deep space could help explain the origins of life
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Watch a NASA Scientist School the Empire on How to Build a Better Death Star
Darth Vader could have saved a few dollars by building it around an asteroid
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Poltergeist and Quijote Are Among the New Approved Names for Alien Planets
People in 45 countries submitted ideas for naming exoplanets and their host stars after legends and literature
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A Brief History of the Hunt for Planet X
The flutter over a possible new world beyond Neptune highlights the long, legitimate search for planets in the solar system’s fringe
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Japan’s Akatsuki Spacecraft May Finally Be Orbiting Venus
The five-year wait is over (almost)
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NASA Needs Your Help Snapping and Processing Images of Jupiter
The public will help direct JunoCam as it twirls past Jupiter next July
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A Space-Based Physics Lab Could Help Scientists Study How Gravity Warps Spacetime
The LISA Pathfinder Probe could help reveal the ripples caused by black holes and supernovae
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Venus May Have Surprisingly Youthful Skin
Based on a new analysis of its impact-driven blemishes, the surface of our sister planet may be much younger than thought
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Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion
The 40th President of the United States was a big science-fiction fan
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How NASA’s Flight Plan Described the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
A second-by-second guide to the historic mission
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Look to the Skies This Month for the Pleiades Star Cluster
The Seven Sisters will shine bright from dusk till dawn for the rest of November
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A New Earth-Sized Planet Is Getting Astronomers Riled Up
It could be a rare opportunity for scientists to study an exoplanet’s atmosphere
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Get Your Pickaxe and Spacecraft Ready, Space Mining Might be Legal Very Soon
The new Space Act would open up the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining
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This Ingenious Archaeologist Uses Satellites to Hunt Down Tomb Raiders
Can satellite imagery help protect humanity’s priceless artifacts?
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Mars’ Gravity Is Slowly Shredding Its Moon Phobos
Telltale grooves on the moon’s surface are an early sign of Phobos’ grim fate
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During the Cold War, the Military Had Plans to Wage War in Space
The U.S. Army’s Future Weapons Office proposed theoretical ways to defend non-existant lunar bases
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