Latest articles by Jeremy Hsu
Microbes that hitch a ride to Mars, but a recent study finds they probably won’t survive for very long.
Lunatrex may have considered itself an underdog in the race for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, but the team now realizes that its slow-but-steady approach just might work.
A Romanian team plans to use a balloon-launched rocket to reach the moon and win the Lunar X Prize.
An online, open-source team wants to land rovers on the moon.
Team Italia hopes to win the Lunar X Prize with a swarm of spider-bots.
Actor Leonard Nimoy recounts how he cried upon seeing the new 2009 "Star Trek" movie.
A Google Lunar X Prize competitor plans to survey the first site where man walked on the moon.
Nations have yet to figure out a unified response to potential asteroid threats.
The Eagle Nebula's famous "pillars of creation" may have grown from gaseous clumps hidden in shadow.
A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe.
A profile of the first Google Lunar X Prize competitor that hopes to kick off a "moon rush."
Scientists will use giant lasers to try and trigger a fusion reaction.
A sample-filled freezer carried experiment results back to Earth on the space shuttle Discovery.
NASA may consider putting comedian Stephen Colbert's name on a space toilet.
A "left-handed" bias in meteorites suggests that Earth life could have come from space.
"Battlestar" producers and actors held a panel at the United Nations.
Pluto's status nowadays as a so-called plutoid and former planet may be official in the latest textbooks, but someone forgot to tell the astronomers.
Update for Google Mars 3-D gives access to raw spacecraft data from NASA.
Comedian Stephen Colbert talks to NASA about space station naming contest.
A futuristic British space plane could fly into orbit and land more cheaply.
Comedian Stephen Colbert jumps into NASA's space station naming contest.
The largest volcano on Mars may hold water and the possibility of life.
Missing asteroids may be the handiwork of rampaging giant planets.
