Editors' Picks
What the astronauts really said
Apollo "onboard voice" recordings captured the moon astronauts' conversations -- cussing and all -- when no one else was listening.
Drones for Hire
The newest eyes in the sky are drawing the attention of power companies, conservation groups, and the ACLU.
Five Reasons to Like NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission
So it's not the Moon or Mars. Get over it.
The Invention of Flight
Inventors, dreamers, daredevils, charlatans: Aviation's early years had them all.
Disaster at Xichang
An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about history’s worst launch accident.
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet”
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
New data from Mars suggest that it may have been hospitable to life in the past. Haven't we heard this before?
March 13, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
A U.N. action team gets serious about protecting the planet from space rocks.
February 21, 2013
| By Tom Jones
An annual award recognizes amateurs for finding rocks in the sky.
February 14, 2013
| By Heather Goss
Samples from other worlds provide some key information on planetary evolution and history but are they the only way to obtain such knowledge?
February 13, 2013
| By Paul D. Spudis
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