Space News

It took 200 astronauts 13 years to complete the International Space Station (ISS). Now, 4,500 people may be able to do the same in less than 50 days -- sort of. A fan-designed LEGO version of the station has passed the h...

Adr1ft casts you as a lone astronaut in the wreckage of a space station whose time and resources are rapidly running out.

Happy Pi Day! Pi is one of the few mathematical constants that immediately conjures up thoughts of food. Pies in particular. My wife Linda, inspired by this important day, prepared a lemon angel meringue pie I can’t wa...

(University of Arizona) Sulfide chondrules, a new type of building blocks discovered in meteorites left over from the solar system's infancy, provide evidence for a previously unknown region in the protoplanetary disk th...

(University of Arizona) An unconventional research method allows UA planetary scientists to develop digital terrain models -- think Google Earth on steroids -- of geologic features on Earth, revealing that some of the th...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: Those who feel as though they've been living in the never-ending winter of the movie "Frozen" this year, this could be welcome news.

Private spacecraft are visiting the ISS, and NASA has publicly stated that the next space station(s) must be privately owned and operated. Today's discussions about space activities aren't merely about exploring space, b...

On March 10, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore of NASA handed over command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut and Expedition 43 commander Terry Virts....

Astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have dubbed "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. This discovery clar...

So I read the scifi book The Martian a while back, and I loved it. It's hard scifi; an adventure tale with a lot of solid science and engineering in it. Despite being laden with technical stuff, it's a page turner, and I...