NASA's VIPER moon mission to seek out lunar water slips to 2023 By Meghan Bartels NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff Tropical cyclones Ferdinand and Esther swirl over Australia in this view captured by the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP weather satellite on Monday (Feb. 24).
On This Day in Space: Feb. 26, 1966: 1st launch of Saturn 1B rocket By Hanneke Weitering On Feb. 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!
Virgin Galactic gearing up to start selling suborbital spaceflight tickets again By Mike Wall If you're looking to book a ride to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic, you shouldn't have to wait much longer.
Mars lander reveals new details about the Red Planet's strange magnetic field By Elizabeth Howell The magnetic field in one zone on Mars is about 10 times stronger than scientists expected, and it's changing rapidly.
Can a rogue star kick Earth out of the solar system? By Paul Sutter Earth is safe from such a catastrophe — almost.
NASA picks moon catapults, lasers, electricity and other wild lunar projects for student contest By Elizabeth Howell NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to student teams looking to deploy robots, towers and other small vehicles alongside moon-roving astronauts.
DARPA's hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' could blast missile threats out of the sky By Elizabeth Howell Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.
NASA's VIPER moon mission to seek out lunar water slips to 2023 By Meghan Bartels NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.
Cosmic cookies! Astronaut weighs in on the future of baking in space By Chelsea Gohd Recently, a batch of baked chocolate chip cookies returned from space, signifying a major step forward towards the future of how humans will eat and thrive in space.
NASA's VIPER moon mission to seek out lunar water slips to 2023 By Meghan Bartels NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.
Pictures from space! Our image of the day By Space.com Staff Tropical cyclones Ferdinand and Esther swirl over Australia in this view captured by the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP weather satellite on Monday (Feb. 24).
Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus By Mike Wall As the hunt for life on Mars starts getting into full swing, some scientists are already looking beyond the Red Planet, to our solar system's next astrobiological frontier.
Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life By Leonard David While the cold, dry, radiation-blasted surface of Mars is widely considered to be uninhabitable, the subsurface may be a very different story.
SETI search of interstellar Comet Borisov finds no sign of alien 'technosignatures' By Mike Wall The Breakthrough Listen SETI project has scanned the interstellar Comet Borisov for "technosignatures" but come up empty so far.
Full moon and the 'Belt of Venus' glow over Lisbon during 1st eclipse of 2020 (photo) By Miguel Claro A cityscape view captured from the highest point of Lisbon shows the first full moon of the year, rising above the capital of Portugal on Jan. 10, with the Tagus River visible in the background.
Milky Way's seasonal transition captured in gorgeous night sky photo By Miguel Claro A starry night scene captured at the end of summer from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal shows the Milky Way's galactic arc shimmering above a dead tree in Noudar Park.
See the moon, 3 planets and red star Antares arc over NYC (photos) By Mike Wall You can catch the sky show, too, if you're willing to rise before the sun.
Isle of Man marks Apollo 13 50th with new 'One Giant Leap' stamps By Robert Z. Pearlman A former NASA manager who was in mission control when Apollo 13 "had a problem" worked with a small postal service to celebrate the missions's 50th anniversary with new set of stamps.
Cut derelict spaceships into spare parts in 'Hardspace: Shipbreaker' By Christopher Livingston The developers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak have announced a new game, coming to Early Access this summer.
Hot Wheels is rolling out 2 remote-controlled Cybertrucks (cracked widow and all) in 2020 By Chelsea Gohd Tesla's futuristic Cybertruck is now a Hot Wheels toy. And it comes complete with a "cracked window sticker," so you can relive some of the vehicle's wildest moments.
