NASA spacecraft successfully crashes into asteroid during space defense test

New images from NASA telescope give a never-before-seen look into the cosmos

Space law hasn’t been changed since 1967 – but the UN aims to update laws and keep space peaceful

India repeals controversial farm laws after a year of protests

It’s been 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space

Cassidy from space: ‘Looking down at Earth, it’s just this blue ball of peace’

A large asteroid just ‘snuck up on us.’ Why wasn’t it detected sooner?

Will Sci-Fi Save Us?

Ann Druyan on Art and Outer Space

Joe Davis’s Universe

Music of the Spheres

Space Age Obsession

Space Age Obsession

Ann Druyan on Art and Outer Space

Hidden Worlds

Music in Space

Take a Trip to Space on a Tiny Balloon

Imagine Your Next Vacation Destination: Kepler-186f

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

This Pioneering Cosmonaut Will Be Your New Heroine, Thanks to “Orange is the New Black”

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

How to Catch a Spacetime Wave

Ancient Tools, Life On Mars, An Aurora Named Steve. March 16, 2018, Part 2.

Chinese space station likely to land in Europe in a few weeks

Islam and the cosmos

Chip Fraud, Space Station Future, Neutron Star. Mar 2, 2018, Part 1

The State of The Union: Our New American Moment

Kirk to Enterprise: The piece of ‘Star Trek’ in your pocket

In a first, scientists spotted an ‘interstellar visitor’ in our solar system

In a long-ago neutron star collision, scientists find a cosmic goldmine

Ghana launches its first tiny, cube satellite into space

Former DOJ official warns: A voter purge is coming.

Finding an Earthly home for the Thirty Meter Telescope

“The coolest, hottest mission under the sun.”

This pressurized, skirt-like machine helps keep astronauts fit

American astronaut Peggy Whitson just broke a world record

Satellites are destined to become space junk. But in the future, we may be able to retool them.

Some of the oxygen on the moon used to be on planet Earth

The Top Risks of 2017, Violence in Chicago, The New Space Race

Three ways to die on Venus, and other space facts

Why the moons of Uranus are named after characters in Shakespeare

Scientists just used Hawaii as a ‘body double’ for Mars

Check out these spectacular supermoon photos from all over the world

How close are we to sending humans to Mars?

One astronaut says his career seemed unlikely, ‘like growing up to be Spider-Man’

An artist finds inspiration in the celestial frustrations of astronomer Charles Messier

Our closest galactic neighbor may also have a habitable planet

Child Soldiers, Space Discoveries, Assault on Campus

This is how radically unrecognizable life might be on other planets

Should we be protecting historic sites in space?

There’s more than just space travel in the code that powered the Apollo spaceship

African Growth, the U.F.O. Candidate, A Dream Database

Redefining the GOP, Mercury in Transit, The Origins of Life

Behold: Tiny Mercury’s thrilling journey between the Earth and the sun!

Photos from space reveal a moonscape wrought by geologic forces and celestial bombardment

Understanding Our Changing Universe

The rise and fall of Argentina’s real-life X-Files unit

Listen to the collision of two black holes. Einstein was right.

Want to find a meteorite? Antarctica might be the best place to look.

Why the long-lost planet Vulcan holds lessons for Planet Nine