NASA

Cloud Spotting

Citizen scientists, unite!

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.

Carbon-Based

Was Mars once teeming with life?

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins has harvested radishes and mizuna greens aboard the ISS — successfully grown without any soil whatsoever.

space salad

Get ready for space hydroponics.

NASA Astronauts Harvest Delicious Space Vegetables, Sans Soil

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.

Roach Food

"No person has permission to keep them."

NASA Demands Return of Moon Dust Pooped Out by Cockroaches

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.

Solar Assassins

"Are you out of your minds? Not just no, but hell no."

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

In a new tell-all memoir, a former second-in-command at NASA has aired a ton of the agency's dirty laundry — including about the man who now helms it.

Musking It Up

This beef goes back pretty far.

Former NASA Official Says Many at Agency Deeply Oppose SpaceX

NASA is obviously a boys club, but according to a former high-ranking official, the agency is much more misogynist than we ever could have thought.

Space Fight

"Many who disagreed with my views attacked me with vulgar, gendered language, depredation, and physical threats."

Former NASA Second-in-Command Says She Was Called Vile Sexist Slurs at Agency

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.

Mars Race

Watch out, NASA.

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.

Moon Race

Are we ever going to make it back to the Moon?

Leaked Documents Show NASA's Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.

Drops of Jupiter

And their remains are still inside it.

Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

The clock is ticking for Voyager 1 and 2. NASA says the Voyager vehicles will run out of power by 2025, ending a decades-long mission launched in 1977.

So Long

An era closes.

Tragedy! NASA Says the Voyager Space Probes are Powering Down

Plans for the Russian Orbital Space Station (ROSS) are moving ahead but a top scientist says International Space Station modules could be contaminated.