SPACE

On This Day in 1971, Apollo 14 Golfers Arrived on the Moon

The next day, Alan Shepard swung his smuggled six-iron.

If the Universe Is Expanding, What Does It Expand Into?

The universe doesn't have to be expanding into anything in order to expand.

The crew posing for their official portrait on November 15, 1985.

Remembering the 7 Challenger Astronauts

When the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, there were seven astronauts on board whose lives were tragically cut short.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Hubble Captures Incredible View of Galaxy-Sized Maser

Imagine a galactic-scale laser shooting a beam of microwaves across space.

See What It Looks Like to Land on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan

In 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe became the first spacecraft to land on an object in the outer solar system.

Look Up! Venus Will Be Bright and a Little Strange Tonight

Get your telescope.

The International Space Station Is Getting Its First African-American Crewmember

Jeanette Epps is going to make history.

Astronomers: Multiple Cosmic Collisions May Have Created Our Moon

New research suggests the Moon we see today was once comprised of baby “moonlets.”

NASA Announces Two New Asteroid Missions

Two robotic spacecraft missions will gather information about the origins of our solar system.

NASA Wants to Make a Mobile Water Factory on the Moon

The goal is to harness and use available resources on other worlds.

Why Do Rockets Need So Much Fuel If, In Space, There Is Nothing to Slow Them Down?

Rockets are conventionally built to have multiple stages.

A Group of Suitcase-Sized Satellites Will Transform Hurricane Tracking

CYGNSS "will improve our knowledge of how hurricanes grow so that we can better prepare and protect people in the path of each hurricane as it comes."

The Top 10 Science Stories of 2016

It's been a big year.

Watch British Scientists Launch a Meat Pie Into Space

One small step for pie, one giant leap for pastry-kind.

Look Up Again! The Final Supermoon of 2016 Rises Tonight

Good news: the supermoon will be bright! The bad news: it brightness will dampen your view of the Geminid meteor shower.

Look Up Tonight! The Geminid Meteor Shower Is Here

It's the time of the year when a mysterious visitor showers all the world with wonder and joy. That's right: Asteroid 3200 Phaethon is coming to town.

9 Moving Quotes from Pioneering Astronaut John Glenn

On February 20, 1962, pioneering astronaut John Glenn made history when he became the first American to orbit the Earth—but he wasn't done yet.

C M Handler via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

The Time Ann Hodges Was Hit by a Meteorite

Hodges survived with mild injuries, but the offending space rock would still manage to mar the rest of her life.

Scientists Figure Out Why Many Returning Astronauts Need Glasses

The zero-G lifestyle does funny things to our bodily fluids.

Watch Chris Hadfield Explain the Sokol Space Suit

Including "the seal that keeps you alive."

When We Go to Mars, How Will We Protect the Microbes From Us?

Life on Mars has yet to be found, but we're already making plans to protect it from us—and us from it.

Will NASA Be Able to Stop a Real-Life Armageddon?

First we find it. Then we try to move it. And if that doesn't work, we blow it up.

New Art Project Allows People to Adopt Pieces of Space Junk That Will Tweet at Them

The art project 'Adrift' aims to illustrate the dangers of space junk through music, visuals, and social media.

The Time an Engineer Accidentally Started the Space Race and Changed the Course of History

A space race was never supposed to happen, but one engineer's obsession changed all of that.

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