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What’s Inside this Artistic Capsule Headed to the Moon?
See how these artists captured a portrait of humanity in just six ounces
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Get Excited for This Year’s Space-Themed Stamps
The Postal Service honors NASA’s New Horizons Mission and Star Trek’s premiere
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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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Here’s Why NASA Had to Postpone a 2016 Mission to Mars
A leak in a key instrument on board the InSight lander means the team will have to wait for the next launch window in 2018
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SpaceX’s Rocket Stuck the Landing
During the first Falcon 9 launch in six months, the first stage booster rocket make a neat u-turn in air and a clean landing on the ground
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This Metal Is 99.9 Percent Air
A new metal “microlattice” is strong yet incredibly light, lending itself to a wide variety of aerospace, automotive and medical uses
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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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How Much Space Do Astronauts Need?
The answer could help design spacecraft for one day taking people on the months-long trip to Mars
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New Images Capture Pluto’s Mountains, Badlands and Craters in Breathtaking Detail
These images are “the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades,” according to NASA
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First Reusable Rocket Launched and Landed Safely Back on Earth
Blue Origin’s ship cruised to the edge of space and back in a mere 11 minutes
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Watch the Philae Lander’s Bouncing Touch Down on Comet 67P
A year after its crash-landing, researchers reflect on the unexpected successes of the mission
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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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Help Save the Booster that Sent Apollo Spacecrafts to the Moon
A Kickstarter campaign hopest to save the only remaining booster rocket from the Apollo launches
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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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The Antares Spacecraft Explosion in Horrifyingly Beautiful Detail
New photos show the grim (yet beautiful) blast
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NASA is Hiring Astronauts for Future Deep Space Missions
Do you want to head to Mars?
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Russia Wants to Send Monkeys to Mars and Women to the Moon
The Russian space agency has announced plans for space missions through 2029
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A Forgotten Piece of Space Junk is Headed for Earth
The object could be a lost piece of a rocket dating back to the Apollo missions
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