On his third day of work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Wolf Cukier, a high school student interning there, found a new planet. His main responsibility when he first joined in the summer of 2019, at the age of 17,…
Original photographs removed from the official publication of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing come 50 years after we landed on the moon. Here is a collection of never-before-seen photographs of the Apollo 11 mission. The images offer an unpr…
On Monday, Bill Nelson, the chief of NASA, revealed the Artemis 2 mission’s crew. This will be more than 50 years after the last crewed lunar trip. The mission, which involves flying around the moon, will be carried out by four astronauts—three Ame…
It's big news, set to shock, amaze, and entertain the world. But unfortunately, it's got nothing to do with extraterrestrial stoners melding with Earth's plants. However, since you're now reading, you'll almost certain…
Tests are underway on a rocket technology that could vastly shorten the time it takes for humans to get to Mars, greatly reducing the risk of mechanical failures and other deadly space hazards on future Mars-bound astronauts. Costa Rica and U.S…
NASA has revealed plans to create a nuclear-powered rocket that could send astronauts to Mars in just 45 days. The agency, which has partnered with the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design the rocket, announce…
We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions to Mars by NASA and China, who may be joined by o…
Using cameras set to monitor the moon, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, recorded an event that occurred on February 23 at 20:14:30.8 Japan Standard Time (7:14 a.m. EST, or 1114 GMT). The event appears to be a meteorite impact, a…
When you were a kid, do you remember all the fun things you wanted to do and the adventures you wanted to go on? Jonny Kim achieved his aspirations of becoming a doctor, NASA astronaut, and sniper for Navy. And he finished it all by the time he was…
Anyone looking at Rose Ferreira, an astronomy student at Arizona State University and a NASA intern, cannot imagine the road she has taken. As a child, the young woman grew up in the Dominican Republic and did not have access to education. She e…
Whether you are a keen astrophotographer or general lover of all things outer-space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made 140,000 audio clips, videos, and images available for everyone to view and download – copyright free and for public use. …
NASA claimed a few months ago that it had successfully created oxygen on Mars for the first time. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) can now manufacture oxygen dependably, according to comprehensive results from the exp…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a cooperation between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, has caught definitive evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet circling a Sun-like star 700 light…
Even the closest stars will take hundreds of years for humanity's fastest spacecraft to approach. In order to potentially allow the scientists who launch the mission to live to witness the results, the Breakthrough Initiatives have been look…
