Watch Nerd Dream-Team Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson Drive a Mars Rover in NYC! By Hanneke Weitering
This Super-Strong Magnet Literally Blew the Doors Off a Tokyo Laboratory By Rafi Letzter There's a magnet in a secure room in Tokyo. The last time its designers switched it on, it blew open the heavy doors designed to keep it contained.
Hop, Don't Roll: How the Tiny Japanese Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu Move By Mike Wall Two tiny Japanese rovers began exploring the surface of the big asteroid Ryugu over the weekend — but they're not roving in the traditional sense of the term.
Kids Can Build, Drive Mars Rovers with New littleBits Kit By Samantha Mathewson A new robot kit lets kids build their own rovers to learn more about technology and the spacecraft used to explore other cosmic bodies, like the moon and Mars.
Antarctica Greenhouse Produces Cucumbers, Tomatoes and More in Mars-Like Test By Elizabeth Howell Fresh vegetables on Mars, anyone?
Hologram of NASA Astronaut Mae Jemison Arrives at NYC's Intrepid Museum By Hanneke Weitering Visitors at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River here in New York can now come face to face with a hologram of Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
Watch a Satellite Net a Cubesat in Awesome Space Junk Cleanup Test By Tereza Pultarova A satellite in space has fired a net at a target to test active space-junk-cleanup technology, and the video is amazing.
SpaceX's Lunar BFR Mission Isn't the 1st Private Moon Tourist Plan. Not Even for SpaceX. By Meghan Bartels There's nothing new under the sun — or around the moon.
Tiny Satellites Headed to Mars Likely Are First of Many By Meghan Bartels Two tiny explorers are pushing the bounds of their kind, but if scientists have their way, the two adventurers will soon have plenty of company.
Mars Explorers Could Live in 'Igloo' Near Red Planet's North Pole By Elizabeth Howell Mars explorers could live in an igloo-like structure near the Red Planet's frigid north pole, to take advantage of the seasonally abundant solar energy in that region, a new study suggests.
Watch Hurricane Florence Churn Toward the East Coast in NASA and NOAA GIFs By Hanneke Weitering See the latest videos and animated imagery of Hurricane Florence.
How NASA Will Use a Space Laser to Measure Earth's Thinning Ice Sheets By Meghan Bartels This weekend, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft that will use half a dozen bright-green laser beams to measure seasonal and annual changes to Earth's icy poles.
Meet the Delta Rocket Family of the United Launch Alliance By Meghan Bartels Delta rockets have been launching to space for almost six decades now, carrying some hallmark NASA missions into orbit.
This Giant, Ultrathin NASA Balloon Just Broke an Altitude Record By Doris Elin Salazar NASA's gigantic, ultrathin balloon, known as the "Big 60," broke a sustainable-altitude record when it took to the skies last month.
Happy Birthday, LHC: Here's to 10 Years of Atom Smashing at the Large Hadron Collider By Don Lincoln Ten years ago, the world's largest scientific instrument was turned on and the start of a research dynasty began.
What It's Like to Snag a Spacecraft with the International Space Station's Robotic Arm By Elizabeth Howell I'm just inches away from capturing a Japanese HTV cargo spacecraft on the International Space Station using the Canadarm2 robotic arm. But things are getting dicey.
India Unveils Its Own Spacesuit Design for 2022 Astronaut Flights By Meghan Bartels The Indian Space Research Organisation showed off the spacesuit it has designed in-house for its first human space missions at an event held on Sept. 6.
