Editors' Picks
Area 51: Origins
America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
Need for Speed
Airplanes with a mission: Fly faster.
Beyond the Moon
It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Vietnam Memoir
Stories from the war that shaped a generation.
The Astronaut’s Wife
Jan Evans recalls how it was for the families of moon voyagers in the Apollo era.
June 2013
| By Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
Astronomers estimate that billions of habitable planets are orbiting red dwarf stars. What would it be like to live there?
June 2013
| By Bruce Lieberman
To new jobs, some odder than others.
June 2013
| By Jeremy Davis
How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A.
May 21, 2013
| By Heather Goss
New work on lunar samples reveal a shared source for water in the deep interior of both Earth and Moon.
May 14, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Herschel Space Telescope closes its eye after the last of its coolant evaporated this week.
April 30, 2013
| By Heather Goss
New data from NASA's GRAIL mission suggest that the crust of the Moon is thinner than we had thought. Is this idea consistent with the geological evidence?
April 24, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
It only took 40 years, but engines originally designed for the Soviet N-1 moon rocket finally left Earth yesterday.
April 22, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
SETI researchers have already listened in for alien transmissions.
April 19, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
April 12, 2013
| By Tony Reichhardt
Instead of astronauts going to the rock, the rock will come to them.
April 12, 2013
| By Guy Gugliotta
A new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum tells us where we are, and how to get where we're going next.
April 11, 2013
| By Heather Goss
After logging nearly 1,400 hours in orbit, Jerry Ross reflects on spaceflight past and future.
April 08, 2013
| By Diane Tedeschi
New information about the interior of the crater Shackleton at the south pole of the Moon sheds some light -- and even more heat -- on the vexing questions remaining about water on the Moon.
April 08, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
The team that landed Curiosity on Mars takes home a trophy.
March 22, 2013
| By Paul Hoversten
Why Europe wants its own satellite navigation program.
April 2013
| By Craig Mellow
It’s not a place, exactly. But it could be NASA’s next destination.
April 2013
| By Guy Gugliotta
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