On This Day in Space! May 20, 1978: NASA Launches Pioneer Venus Orbiter By Hanneke Weitering On May 20, 1978, NASA launched a spacecraft to Venus. The mission was called Pioneer-Venus 1. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space videos series!
How Space Station and Moon Missions Will Prep Astronauts for Mars By Elizabeth Howell NASA's push to land humans on the moon in 2024, along with the agency's ongoing research on the International Space Station, could serve as excellent analog environments for a mission to Mars.
Could Blockchain Tech Launch Spacefaring Nations Into a Data-Sharing Frontier By Elizabeth Howell Data sharing between entities in space will be easier and more secure using technologies such as blockchain, an industry participant argued at the Humans to Mars summit on May 16.
Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy Taking Shape on Chilean Mountaintop By Mike Wall The Giant Magellan Telescope has notched some important milestones on its path to 'first light' in the mid-2020s.
SpaceX vs. Drogon: Which Dragon Wins the 'Game of Thrones'? By Meghan Bartels Chances are high that the "Game of Thrones" finale won't tackle our most pressing question: Which would win, one of these fire-breathing dragons or one of SpaceX's Dragon capsules?
Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of Sound By Doris Elin Salazar A U.S. venture-capital firm recently led a round of seed investment for Hermeus Corp., a new startup looking to develop a hypersonic aircraft.
Parachute Development a Challenge for Commercial Crew By Jeff Foust An incident involving a test of parachutes for one commercial crew vehicle has heightened awareness of the challenges involved in developing those systems.
Oh the Places (on Mars) You'll Go! Here's Where NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Headed By Doris Elin Salazar Curiosity will be coming 'round the Martian mountain when it comes — and a colorful new animation highlights where exactly the mission is headed.
Cost of Delta IV Heavy Rocket Launches is Down But the Real Price Is a Secret By Sandra Erwin The Air Force announcement that it is paying ULA $449.8 million for three Delta 4 Heavy launches is only half the story.
Parachute Development a Challenge for Commercial Crew By Jeff Foust An incident involving a test of parachutes for one commercial crew vehicle has heightened awareness of the challenges involved in developing those systems.
This Yellow Egyptian Glass Was Forged by a Meteorite Impact 29 Million Years Ago By Meghan Bartels Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago.
Oh the Places (on Mars) You'll Go! Here's Where NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Headed By Doris Elin Salazar Curiosity will be coming 'round the Martian mountain when it comes — and a colorful new animation highlights where exactly the mission is headed.
How Earth Life Could Come Back from a Sterilizing Asteroid Impact By Mike Wall Supervillains take note: Even the biggest and baddest asteroids may not be 100% effective as a doomsday devices.
Mysterious 'Sub-Neptunes' Are Probably Water Worlds By Charles Q. Choi Water worlds that each possess thousands of times more water than Earth does may be more common than Earth-like rocky planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a new study finds.
Could There Be Life on Mars Today? By Mike Wall The search for life on Mars shouldn't focus exclusively on the distant past, some researchers say.
Caught Speeding: Illinois Patrol Cop Spies Blazing Fireball (Video) By Elizabeth Howell An Illinois police officer on a routine trip earlier this month saw a fireball suddenly light up the sky in front of the car's dashboard camera.
Watch the Blue Moon of May 2019 Rise Today in a Live Webcast! By Elizabeth Howell You can watch the "Blue Moon" rise live over Rome in a broadcast from the Virtual Telescope Project. Tune in today (May 18) to see the show, starting at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT).
'Star Trek' Picard Spinoff Series Gets Official Name and Logo By Scott Snowden More information about the new "Star Trek" spinoff series focusing on Jean-Luc Picard is beginning to find its way to the public.
The Women of 'Firefly' to Launch On a New Adventure in 'The Sting' By Tariq Malik Firefly is back with a new original graphic novel.
Best Space Books and Sci-Fi for 2019 By SPACE.com Staff Space.com's editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight.
