NASA

Remember when NASA discovered evidence of gypsum-like crystals on Mars a couple weeks ago? It was pretty interesting, considering that...

The process of "fast magnetic reconnection" may not seem to interesting, but it plays a role in a lot of extremely bright and...

Searching the known universe for Earth-like planets is a tiring process, because even beyond its size and relative distance from the...

Last year, US President Donald Trump put forth a revised budget for NASA that is set to implement several key changes to the way...

Rejoice, fans of The Martian: Resourceful thinking and clever jerry-rigging on the Red Planet can indeed salvage a disaster, even...

Bad news, fans of giant space cameras: the James Webb telescope, intended as the new pinnacle of NASA's achievements, is in pretty bad...

Plenty of planets have moons, but our Moon is special for a couple of major reasons--including the fact that it's proportionally...

Enceladus has always fascinated scientists and those hunting for the possibility of alien life, even if it's never really caught the...

There are no payphones on the Moon, but you knew that already. But what are you to do if you find yourself wandering around the...

Everyone loves Curiosity, Mars' resident giant rover, but we have to admit that it's kind of slow--in five years, it's only traveled...

It's something of an understatement to say that Mars wouldn't be a particularly nice place to live.It's hardly surprising that no...

For a long time now, NASA has been working on their Space Launch System (SLS), an extremely powerful rocket that could potentially...

While there's always talk of eventually visiting Mars — and we might within the next decade, if SpaceX or Boeing actually follow...

Now that there's talk of going back to the Moon at some point, perhaps to even set up a more longterm colony, this raises the question...

Last September marked the end of an era for NASA, as their long-running Cassini spacecraft finally ended its mission that gave us...

It's been a little while since NASA's Juno probe has sent back some amazing looking photos of Jupiter, but the probe is still out...

The universe is expanding; we've known this for almost a century. (Edwin Hubble is usually given credit for that.) But let's...

Five years from now could see humans living near the moon. Part of President Trump's 2019 NASA budget proposal allocates $2.7 billion...

People still make jokes about the "Russian Space Pen," but there's one thing no one jokes about in the space program: going to the...

Picture this: you go for a walk on a sunny spring day. You're minding your own business, thinking about just how pleasant the weather...