How NASA's Opportunity and Spirit Rovers Changed Mars Exploration Forever By Mike Wall The two long-lived NASA robots were the first truly mobile Mars explorers.
NASA Wants Help from Private Companies to Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2028 By Doris Elin Salazar This week, NASA made a formal request for private companies to propose future lunar technologies, with responses due by the end of next month.
NASA Will Launch a New Space Telescope in 2023 to Investigate the Universe By Meghan Bartels Come 2023, NASA will have a new eye tracking the heavens and looking to solve some of the greatest scientific mysteries we know of.
The Epic Driving Record of NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars By Meghan Bartels NASA has officially stopped trying to contact its Opportunity rover on Mars, but before the robot went silent, it claimed a dramatic record: farthest distance driven on another planetary body.
Mars Rover Opportunity Is Dead After Record-Breaking 15 Years on Red Planet By Mike Wall One of the great exploration stories of our time is officially over.
New US Dollar Coin Honors Role of Native Americans in Space Program By Robert Z. Pearlman John Herrington is looking forward to his new pocket change.
There's a 'Mole' on Mars Now, Thanks to NASA's InSight Lander By Meghan Bartels NASA's InSight Mars lander has successfully deployed its final instrument, a heat probe nicknamed the "mole" for its plan to burrow into the Martian regolith.
Tickets to Mars Will Eventually Cost Less Than $500,000, Elon Musk Says By Mike Wall SpaceX's Mars ships won't be ferrying just the super rich to and from the Red Planet, if everything goes according to Elon Musk's plan.
A Computer Spotted a Turtle Hiding Out in a Cloud of 'Quantum Fireworks' By Rafi Letzter Scientists couldn't find the pattern in these strange clouds of quantum fireworks. So they enlisted a computer, and it noticed a hidden turtle.
New NASA Partnership Will Spearhead Search for Life By Meghan Bartels NASA is launching a new research partnership to tackle the search for life beyond Earth, including life that may look very different from the kinds we're familiar with.
Earth's Magnetic Field Booms Like a Drum, But No One Can Hear It By Laura Geggel And for the first time, physicists have recorded the wild drum beats rippling from the magnetic poles.
Postcards from Mars: The Amazing Photos of Opportunity and Spirit Rovers By Tariq Malik Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars rovers, have done groundbreaking science on the surface of the Red Planet. Take a look at some of their latest Mars photos.
Water Could Have Drowned the Earth If Not for Ancient Supernova By Charles Q. Choi Radioactive metal might help explain why Earth and its sibling worlds are not ocean planets hostile to life as we know it, a new study finds.
Former Astronaut Mark Kelly Announces Campaign for US Senate By Hanneke Weitering Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly announced that he is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona.
See Mars Rover Curiosity's Parting Glance of Mountain Ridge (360 Video) By Elizabeth Howell It's been more than a year — time to get roving again.
Earth's Shadow and the 'Belt of Venus' Arc Over La Palma in a Scenic Panorama (Photo) By Hanneke Weitering Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus loom above the horizon behind the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in this panorama by astrophotographer Chirag Upreti.
China's Chang'e 4 Powers Down for 2nd Night on the Moon's Far Side By Andrew Jones The Chang'e-4 lander and rover entered sleep mode Monday in preparation for a second lunar nighttime on the far side of the moon.
How to See Comet Iwamoto Fly Past Earth This Week By Hanneke Weitering The brilliant, blue-green comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto will zip by Earth this week, and the speedy space "snowball" is currently visible in the night sky with binoculars and small telescopes.
Mars One Company Goes Bankrupt By Jeff Foust The company that was to finance Mars One has been liquidated, dealing a severe setback to the venture’s quixotic goals of one-way human missions to Mars.
NASA Spots a Second Massive Possible Impact Crater Buried Under Greenland Ice By Meghan Bartels Hard on the heels of the discovery of a potential massive impact crater deep under the Greenland ice sheet, scientists think they may have found yet another such structure nearby.
