Space Travel

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on Sunday, January 17. Though the launch went as planned, the craft's landing did not.

Sunday's SpaceX Landing Didn't Exactly Go as Planned

Jason-3 made it to orbit—but the company's Falcon 9 rocket didn't make it back to Earth in one piece

A rendering of the MoonArk

What's Inside this Artistic Capsule Headed to the Moon?

See how these artists captured a portrait of humanity in just six ounces

Get Excited for This Year's Space-Themed Stamps

The Postal Service honors NASA’s New Horizons Mission and Star Trek's premiere

A Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft lifts off from a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 23, 2015.

Russia Scraps Space Agency for a State-Run Corporation

Russia's federal space agency will soon be no more

Screenshot from “The story of space debris” showing the Earth's cluttered space in 2015.

Jettison Through Nearly 60 Years of Space Junk Accumulation

People have been leaving a mess out in Earth's orbit

The back shell of NASA’s InSight spacecraft being lowered onto the lander, last July, in preparation for the mission.

Here's Why NASA Had to Postpone a 2016 Mission to Mars

A leak in a key instrument on board the InSight lander means the team will have to wait for the next launch window in 2018

A long exposure captures the Falcon 9's launch and return.

SpaceX's Rocket Stuck the Landing

During the first Falcon 9 launch in six months, the first stage booster rocket make a neat u-turn in air and a clean landing on the ground

Metal microlattice

This Metal Is 99.9 Percent Air

A new metal "microlattice" is strong yet incredibly light, lending itself to a wide variety of aerospace, automotive and medical uses

Watch a NASA Scientist School the Empire on How to Build a Better Death Star

Darth Vader could have saved a few dollars by building it around an asteroid

NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (left) and Terry Virts (right) work on a day’s task on board the International Space Station

How Much Space Do Astronauts Need?

The answer could help design spacecraft for one day taking people on the months-long trip to Mars

Surprising bright spots lurking in Ceres’ Occator crater, as spotted by the Dawn spacecraft

We Finally May Know the Cause of Ceres’ Bright Spots

It's not aliens

The informally named al-Idrisi mountains meet the smooth surface of Sputnik Planum in this image.

New Images Capture Pluto’s Mountains, Badlands and Craters in Breathtaking Detail

These images are "the best close-ups of Pluto that humans may see for decades," according to NASA

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket takes off at the start of a test to re-land the system

First Reusable Rocket Launched and Landed Safely Back on Earth

Blue Origin's ship cruised to the edge of space and back in a mere 11 minutes

Wide-angle view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by OSIRIS on 12 September 2014

Watch the Philae Lander's Bouncing Touch Down on Comet 67P

A year after its crash-landing, researchers reflect on the unexpected successes of the mission

Soon, space miners could lay claim to minerals in asteroids like this one.

Get Your Pickaxe and Spacecraft Ready, Space Mining Might be Legal Very Soon

The new Space Act would open up the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining

The Apollo 17 Saturn V rocket, the last human flight to the moon, on its launch pad at dusk on November 21, 1972

Help Save the Booster that Sent Apollo Spacecrafts to the Moon

A Kickstarter campaign hopest to save the only remaining booster rocket from the Apollo launches

During the Cold War, the Military Had Plans to Wage War in Space

The U.S. Army's Future Weapons Office proposed theoretical ways to defend non-existant lunar bases

The Antares Spacecraft Explosion in Horrifyingly Beautiful Detail

New photos show the grim (yet beautiful) blast

NASA is Hiring Astronauts for Future Deep Space Missions

Do you want to head to Mars?

Russian scientists are training rhesus monkeys like these for a mission to Mars in 2017.

Russia Wants to Send Monkeys to Mars and Women to the Moon

The Russian space agency has announced plans for space missions through 2029

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