Latest articles by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
Could you be the Lord of the rings (of Saturn)? Try your hand at our Saturn-themed space quiz!
This quiz will challenge your knowledge of Jupiter's features, moons, and the missions that have dared to get close.
This powerful side-by-side comparison shows just how bright a star explosion is.
As part of its exploration of Mars's boxwork landscape, Curiosity found itself in a fork-in-the-road
This quiz will explore the science behind the scenery, the facts behind the familiar, and the wonders that make Earth a living planet.
This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.
This quiz is dedicated to the mechanical marvels that have rolled across the surfaces of alien worlds: the iconic space rovers!
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts are gearing up for their planned 2026 moon launch by photographing an inflatable version of Earth's nearest neighbor.
Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!
Like birds returning to their nests, these feather-like grid fins help steer rockets back down through the atmosphere toward their landing zones.
This quiz will explore the facts, the fun and the fascinating quirks of our solar system's speedster, Mercury
Think you know Earth's moon? Test your knowledge in a lunar quiz!
In this quiz, you'll test your cosmic knowledge by matching each moon to the planet it calls home.
The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
In this quiz, you'll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods have actually made it to orbit?
SpaceX's Crew-11 mission delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
This quiz tests your knowledge of which female astronauts broke barriers and reached for the stars.
The Chinese lunar lander Lanyue recently passed a test in a simulated moon-like environment.
The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored image of this star-forming area.
Our quiz will test your smarts of which planets go where in our solar system.
This long-exposure image from the International Space Station shows the growing tension between celestial beauty and human expansion into space.
Both science fiction and real life have some interesting spacecraft names, sometimes borrowing from each other. This quiz will test to see if you know the difference.
In a Q&A interview, author and science writer David Baron discusses the turn-of-the-century Mars craze, which he covers in his new book, "The Martians."
