Space Tourism Is About to Push Civilian Astronaut Medicine Into the Final Frontier By Meghan Bartels For decades, access to space has been limited based on a set of preconceived beliefs about human bodies — but capitalism is chipping away at those restrictions.
Best Spaceflight and Space History Books By SPACE.com Staff Here are Space.com writers' and editors' picks for spaceflight and space history books that dazzle.
Scientists Reveal New Details of Dwarf Planet Haumea's Elusive Ring By Hanneke Weitering Haumea's ring is too faint to be seen from planet Earth, so astronomers have turned to context clues to find out more about these particles.
A Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere Is Venting All Its Water into Space By Rafi Letzter Why is Mars so dry? A new paper might have the explanation.
There's a Brand-New Kilogram, And It's Based on Quantum Physics By Rafi Letzter The kilogram isn't a thing anymore. Instead, it's an abstract idea about light and energy and fundamental universal constants.
The Moon Has Two Faces. This Cosmic Crash May Be Why By Meghan Bartels Ours is a moon with two faces: The nearside boasts a thinner and smoother crust, the farside is dotted by impact craters left nearly undisturbed by lava flows.
Lego Fan Vote Could Launch International Space Station As Toy Set By Robert Z. Pearlman Lego is giving the International Space Station a third chance at becoming one of its official toy sets.
Pluto Has a Buried Ocean — And So Might Many Other Worlds By Mike Wall Buried oceans like the one sloshing beneath the icy surface of the Jupiter moon Europa may be far more common across the cosmos than scientists had imagined.
SpaceX to Launch 60 'Starlink' Internet Satellites Thursday By Mike Wall This week, SpaceX will again try to loft the first 60 members of its Starlink internet-satellite megaconstellation.
NASA's Moon Return Among Key Topics at 2019 International Space Development Conference By Elizabeth Howell The National Space Society's International Space Development Conference will take place next month amid a large policy shift for NASA: sending humans to the moon, and soon.
Omega Celebrates 'Iconic Hours' of Apollo 11 With New Speedmaster Moonwatch By Robert Z. Pearlman A new chronograph captures the time, 50 years ago, when the first wristwatch was worn on the surface of the moon.
How to Make Moon Water: Add Solar Wind, Tiny Meteorites, and Then Heat By Nicoletta Lanese Scientists may be one step closer to solving the mystery of water on the moon; the secret may lie in a synergistic interaction between the solar wind, micrometeorites and moon dust.
'Rehearsal' Dinner: Gala Celebrates Apollo 10 Moon Mission's 50th Anniversary By Robert Z. Pearlman Fifty years to the day after the "dress rehearsal" for the first moon landing lifted off into history, astronauts and NASA leaders celebrated Apollo 10.
Ariana Grande Loves Space, So NASA Took Her to Mission Control By Meghan Bartels Ariana Grande wrote an entire song about her love for space, literal and metaphorical, and this weekend she got the ultimate space-fan tour experience, visiting NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Best Kids' Space Books By SPACE.com Staff Feed and inspire a kid's thirst for space with these book picks by Space.com's writers and editors.
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.
