5396 Results From "nasa"

NASA and JPL have announced its InSight lander is officially collecting solar power on the Martian surface — completing yet another critical step.
Mars

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Fires up Solar Cells and Sends Selfie

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.
Science & Energy

India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

A team of researchers at the University of California found that there could be way more ice water on the surface of the Moon than we initially thought.
Science & Energy

Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought

An upcoming NASA mission will test Earth's planetary defense against a killer asteroid by smashing a probe into a distant space rock.
NASA

NASA Scientist: Asteroid Deflection Mission Not Like “Armageddon”

A group of scientists are suggesting that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are surrounded by, and devour, much smaller "baby black holes."
Science & Energy

Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers from Cornell University claim they've found the first potentially habitable "super-earth," an Earth-like planet outside the Solar System.
Science & Energy

Satellite Spots “First Nearby Super-Earth” That Could Harbor Life

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told TIME he thinks "we could land on the Moon in less than two years" — but that "we" might not include NASA.
Moon

Elon Musk: We Could Land on the Moon In “Less Than Two Years”

Newt Gingrich proposed a $2 billion contest for private companies to set up a settlement on the Moon. Elon Musk wants in.
Moon

Elon Musk Wants Newt Gingrich’s $2 Billion Moon Payout

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just broke the world records for closest approach to the Sun and fastest speed relative to the Sun.
Solar Power

NASA’s Solar Probe Just Broke Two World Records

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.
Mars

Elon Musk: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
Mars

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may be far from home, but that doesn't mean they'll miss out on Thanksgiving dinner.
Off-World

Here’s What’s on the Space Station’s Thanksgiving Menu

A new deep-sea robot called Aquanaut can "transform" between being an autonomous submarine and a mermaid-like humanoid robot.
Robotics

A New Deep-Sea Robot Can Shape-Shift Into an Autonomous Submarine

Scientists set off a massive explosion in the Nevada desert to test special earthquake-detecting balloons that could one day be deployed over Venus.
NASA

NASA Wants to Send Earthquake-Detecting Balloons to Venus

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.
Science & Energy

MIT Deepfake Shows Nixon Sadly Saying the Moon Astronauts Died

SpaceX has released an amazing video that shows half of a nose cone (or fairing) from a Falcon Heavy rocket plummet back own to Earth.
SpaceX

Watch a Piece of a SpaceX Rocket Careen Back Down to Earth

Two astronauts spent six and a half hours outside of the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday installing a new commercial spacecraft docking port.
Off-World

Astronauts Add Docking Bay For Private Spaceships to Space Station

Someone hacked NASA servers, potentially stealing the personal info of employees in the process, according to an internal memo.
Hacking

Hackers Accessed NASA Servers Containing Employee Information

A stylized picture of a 3D-printed heart like one NASA wants to print in space.
3D Printing

Here’s Why NASA Wants to 3D Print Human Hearts in Space

A NASA scientist just made animations showing how slow the speed of light is compared to the scale of the cosmos to explain why we haven't traveled far.
NASA

New NASA Animations Show How Slowly Light Travels Through Space