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.
Gravity data from NASA's GRAIL mission show that deeply buried bodies of igneous rock in the crust can be detected from orbit.
December 10, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
A new film about the perspective that comes with seeing Earth from afar.
December 07, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
A realty company wondered what it might cost to launch your house to Mars.
December 06, 2012
| By Heather Goss
A 16th-century telescope, Lunar Orbiter mission documents, early views of deep space, and more go on auction this week.
December 03, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
Recent data from the planet Mercury indicates that water ice is found near its poles. What does this mean for the Moon?
December 02, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
A new interactive graphic highlights the space agency's plans.
November 28, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Using the material and energy resources of space could be a major game-changer for spaceflight. So why haven't we ever done it?
November 17, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
The Library of Congress’s first resident astrobiologist takes inspiration from both Carl Sagan and Jerry Garcia.
November 16, 2012
| By Pat Trenner
The Ranger series of space probes finally succeeded — on the seventh try.
January 2013
| By George C. Larson
A team of NASA alums is building a spacecraft to protect Earth - and you can help.
January 2013
| By Bruce Lieberman
A new paper claims mineral evidence for the largest basin on the Moon -- is it true?
November 01, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Oddball items at the National Air and Space Museum.
October 31, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
What is the ultimate source of the water found at the poles of the Moon? A new study of some lunar soil samples suggests a surprising answer.
October 17, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
What color is the Moon? The answer is not as straightforward as you might think.
October 10, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket keeps on chugging, despite an engine loss.
October 08, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
If the Mercury astronauts seemed obsessed with bathroom humor, maybe it was because of their doctors.
October 03, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
It never went to space, but the astronauts spent many hundreds of hours inside the CCT-1.
October 01, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
First-time views from inside a re-entering spacecraft.
September 28, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Two new and very different scientific studies may revise our understanding of the Giant Impact that supposedly created the Moon.
September 28, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
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