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.
DARPA's Space Surveillance Telescope is seeking out potentially Earth-threatening asteroids.
January 27, 2012
| By Heather Goss
Solar tantrums of 1859, 1921, and 1989.
January 26, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
How do you clean out your electric razor in zero-G? Carefully.
January 25, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Prizes for specific accomplishments have been proposed as the solution to the problem of a moribund space program. Are they?
January 25, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Sometimes it looks as though the Earth is watching us.
January 24, 2012
| By Don Pettit
There is one, surprisingly—but you can't sense it directly.
January 23, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A welcome-home party for what was left of a space station.
March 2012
| By Scott N. Gaines
The atmosphere on edge glows with a vibrant electric blue. Did van Gogh paint this scene?
January 19, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Velcro helps us keep things from floating away at dinner time. Or so I thought.
January 18, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Scientists offer a mesmerizing visual of the matter that makes up, well, everything.
January 17, 2012
| By Heather Goss
If you're planning an off-world vacation, there's only one name to call: Eric Anderson
March 2012
| By Michael Belfiore
The space station's finished. Now what?
March 2012
| By Guy Gugliotta
China plans to send humans to the Moon. Why we should care.
January 14, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
Sometimes your brain can play little tricks. Under some lighting conditions the Grand Canyon does not look like a canyon at all.
January 13, 2012
| By Don Pettit
For spaceships, there is no business class.
January 11, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The first suborbital tourists will spend up to $200,000 for a few precious minutes of weightlessness. How many minutes will they get?
January 06, 2012
| By David Warmflash
The ISS astronauts talk about their mission so far, and what's ahead.
January 04, 2012
| By Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine
The SpaceX founder talks Martian real estate.
January 04, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Twelve things to watch for in space next year—if the world doesn’t end.
December 29, 2011
| By Tony Reichhardt
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