How to Feed a Mars Colony of 1 Million People By Charles Q. Choi What might it take to feed a million people on Mars? Lab-grown meat, tunnel-grown crops and cricket farms, a new study finds.
SpaceX's Next Starship Prototype Taking Shape (Photos) By Mike Wall Construction of the test craft is proceeding apace, as two new photos posted on Twitter today (Sept. 17) by company founder and CEO Elon Musk reveal.
How Augmented Reality Will Bring Space Books to Life By Michael D. Shaw When we read about the glories of space, we often miss the most magnificent part about exploring it: the audiovisual experience.
Europe Wants Ideas for Cave-Spelunking Moon Robots. Here's How You Can Help! By Elizabeth Howell As NASA makes a big push to land humans on the moon's surface by 2024, the European Space Agency wants to learn more about the caves that lie beneath.
NASA Puts Bigelow Aerospace's Giant Inflatable Space Habitat Prototype to the Test (Photos) By Mike Wall NASA is currently conducting a two-week ground test on Bigelow Aerospace's B330 habitat here at the company's headquarters, assessing the module's suitability as a deep-space astronaut abode.
Watch NASA's SLS Megarocket Get Ready for New US Moon Missions (Video) By Elizabeth Howell NASA is hard at work getting its new, moon-bound rocket and spacecraft ready for Artemis 1, the next mission of the agency's program, which aims to eventually land humans on the lunar surface.
Europe's ArianeWorks Aims for Reusable Rockets (with a Very SpaceX Look) By Elizabeth Howell Veteran launch provider Arianespace's parent Ariane Group has teamed up with the French space agency CNES for ArianeWorks, a project for reusable rockets.
Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible? By Paul Sutter Interstellar flight is a real pain in the neck.
Apollo 12 Astronaut's 'AstroVette' Added to Historic Vehicle Register By Robert Z. Pearlman An Apollo astronaut's car that was custom-styled after his spacecraft's colors is set to land on the National Mall and in the Library of Congress.
Made In Space to Step Up Off-Earth Production of Valuable Optical Fiber By Mike Wall Made In Space intends to launch another ZBLAN-manufacturing machine to the International Space Station within the next year or so.
Russia's Humanoid Skybot Robot in Space Commits Twitter Photo Faux-Pas Ahead of Landing By Chelsea Gohd Skybot F-850 tweeted out a photo of Earth from the space station that was taken by a NASA astronaut almost 10 years ago.
US Air Force Begins 2019 Space Wargame By Leonard David The United States Air Force Space Command began conducting the 13th Schriever Wargame at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama yesterday (Sept. 4).
Sleuths Find the Top-Secret (and Classified) Satellite Behind Trump's Tweeted Photo By Stephanie Pappas It was only a matter of time: Amateur sleuths think they've tracked down the satellite that took a high-resolution image of the aftermath of an Iranian missile disaster.
These Jumping, Flapping Microrobots Could Swarm On Far-Off Worlds By Chelsea Gohd Newly designed insect-sized robots could be used to explore distant worlds and objects like asteroids and comets.
Astronauts Test Retro Spacesuit Tech for Mock Mars Missions Under the Sea By Chelsea Gohd Astronauts test new tech in NASA's new NEEMO NXT mission.
No Digging Required: Space Mining on the Moon and Beyond May Be Solar Powered By Mike Wall The best way to extract water from the moon and near-Earth asteroids involves hitting the stuff with sunlight or other forms of radiation, if three NASA-funded projects are any guide.
Mars Helicopter Drone Installed on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover By Mike Wall Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, attached the tiny Mars Helicopter to the agency's car-size Mars 2020 rover today (Aug. 28), agency officials announced.
US Military Eyes Strategic Value of Earth-Moon Space By Leonard David The protection of trade routes and lines of communication are traditional military responsibilities, and this will continue to be true as cislunar space becomes "high ground."
NASA Eyes Missions to Track Space Weather Threats with Small Satellites By Elizabeth Howell NASA is considering two proposals that would study space weather from the sun, which poses a radiation threat to astronauts cruising across the solar system.
NASA Just Activated Its Deep Space Atomic Clock By Chelsea Gohd NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock, which will pave the way for deep space exploration, has been activated and will now begin a year-long tech demo.
