What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program

One thing’s for sure: Escaping the dung heap doesn’t come cheap.

What a Fungus Reveals About the Space Program

One thing’s for sure: Escaping the dung heap doesn’t come cheap.

Where NASA Will Send Its First Robotic Moon Rover to Search for Ice

The agency picked the Nobile crater near the lunar south pole to seek frozen water that will be essential to future astronaut missions.

SpaceX astronauts will get a health check after splashdown.

While the Inspiration4 crew was only in orbit for three days, doctors will performing screenings to make sure they are well.

The Inspiration4 flight showed space tourism’s potential and limitations.

A crew of everypersons showed what space tourism could become in the future.

A talk with Tom Cruise as the astronauts cruise around the planet.

The movie star may have his own ambitions of traveling to orbit one day.

From ‘Jeff who?’ to ‘Thank you.’

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos over spaceflight is well known, but the two made nice on Twitter over the Inspiration4 launch.

Who Gets Sick in Space? Orbital Tourists May Offer Better Clues.

Commercial spaceflight brings a more diverse cross section of humanity beyond Earth, helping medical researchers collect data.

Russia to Open New Frontier in Space, Shooting First Full-Length Movie

Racing to beat NASA, an actress and a film director will blast off next month for the International Space Station, where they will film “The Challenge.”

How did the Inspiration4 crew train for their flight?

Professional and amateur astronauts go through very similar training exercises.

Sarah Gillis will be a key voice in the astronauts’ ears as they head to orbit.

The engineer trained the astronauts on the Crew Dragon capsule's systems and will also provide key communications on their trip to orbit.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Stashes First Mars Rock Sample

The rock, sealed in a tube, is the first of many the robotic explorer will collect to one day send back to Earth for scientists to study.

On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Drilled the Rocks It Came For

After an earlier drilling attempt failed to collect anything, the rover appeared to gather its first sample. But mission managers need to take another look before sealing the tube.

Boeing’s Starliner Launch Is Delayed, Again, Possibly Until Next Year

Problems with the capsule’s propulsion system require more troubleshooting, a setback for a program to carry NASA astronauts to the space station.

NASA Says an Asteroid Will Have a Close Brush With Earth. But Not Until the 2100s.

Scientists have improved their forecast of the orbital path of Bennu, a space rock the size of the Empire State Building that was visited by the OSIRIS-REX spacecraft.

Gilbert V. Levin, Who Said He Found Signs of Life on Mars, Dies at 97

Most planetary scientists dismissed his conclusions, but he remained steadfast that the experiment he conducted in the mid-1970s had been a success.

NASA and Boeing Postpone Launch of Starliner Spacecraft

After a flawed trip to orbit in 2019, the company hopes to take another crack at an uncrewed test flight of its spacecraft for NASA astronauts.

It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin.

Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA’s mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space Station after a new Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters.

Bezos’ Rocket Company Loses Challenge to NASA SpaceX Moon Contract

The Government Accountability Office said a $2.9 billion award to SpaceX to build the next lunar lander for astronauts would stand.

50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon

The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers.