Researchers believe they’ve found a great place for a moonbase — thanks to a volcano
Building a moonbase in a lava tube. Doesn't that sound awesome?
Tag: nasa
Astronaut shows what fidget spinners can do in outer space
NASA just wins, can everyone stop with the fidget spinner videos now?
You can now use Google Maps to explore other moons and planets
You can explore the solar system from the comfort of your home.
NASA astronauts start spacewalk — with live footage
You can watch it live here.
NASA and Russia to work on new Lunar Space Station
It's good to see two old rivals work together.
Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight
Despite traveling more than ten billion miles in four decades, Voyager-1 is still at it.
Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday
Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.
The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft will get a burial place fit for such a long-trekked explorer: Saturn.
NASA releases dazzling images of Jupiter’s Red Spot, makes them open for citizen scientists
It's awesome, it's very useful, and it's open for everyone to use.
NASA wants to celebrate its 100-year-anniversary — with you!
Happy bday, NASA!
Gecko-inspired ‘Velcro’ could help cleanup our growing space junk problem
Inspired by nature, scientists tackle a sticky problem.
After record number of applications, NASA announces the future generation of astronauts
Take a good look at these people. A few years from now, they will be conducting research off the Earth ...
Citizen scientists discover new cold star close to our solar system
In this day and age, everyone can be a scientist.
NASA will explore an asteroid worth 10,000 $quadrillion — four years sooner than expected
The scientific value might be just as high.
Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
The best of the best.
Want to work on NASA’s software and get paid for it? You’ll love this challenge
Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.
Cassini heard ‘the big empty’ when it dived through Saturn and its rings
The song before the 'grand finale'.
Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn’t have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission
Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.
NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable
Recycle everything!!!
All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents
Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.
NASA to make tantalizing announcement about water worlds later today
NASA is doing the old 'announcement of an announcement,' and we're absolutely falling for it.
The Martian atmosphere might be cruel and inhospitable but at least it has metal ions
Studying Mars' ionosphere and its metal ions might explain how the planet lost most of its atmosphere (and liquid water).
This year’s 22 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts are out of this world
It's incredible what humans can do with some funding.
Adorable NASA robocube will float and do the housekeeping aboard the ISS
More like robocute, am I right?
The Origins of Water Ice on Mercury
Who would expect water on the nearest planet to the Sun?
NASA plans to use repellent coatings to coax liquids into flowing even when there is no “down”
Not a problem many would even think possible -- but a real one nonetheless.
Twitterers compete with suggestions for newly discovered exoplanets’ names — hilarity ensues
Anyone care to wager which name popped up instantly?
Tomorrow, NASA will announce major “discovery beyond the solar system” during press conference
It's press only, but NASA made sure everyone can follow the talks and even get a question in.
The first ever supernova-in-progress seen shows we don’t quite yet understand them
A really lucky find.
NASA’s study of the Louisiana Deltas yields fantastic images of new land being born
Always down for some eye candy.
NASA’s twin astronaut study shows living in space can change our biology
An unusual, one of a kind study reveals the strange influence living in space has on our genes.
Wearing NASA’s new Starliner space suit is reason enough to become an astronaut
Guaranteed to maintain awesomeness even at 0 atm.
New NASA phone app is basically ‘Plant Sims in Space’
Take a trip on the ISS and grow some plants.
NASA’s ‘Mars Explorers Wanted’ posters will set you packing for space
Where's my toothbrush?
Space loops: NASA shares its GIF collection
A new reaction GIF archive, courtesy of NASA.
Startling NASA photo reveals 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf
It looks like we're moving closer to a dramatic break-up.
NASA plans to build robots that explore frozen worlds from metallic glass so they don’t shatter
"Cold enough to shatter robots" is pretty cold in my book.
NASA tells us which plants to buy for cleaner air — in 100% infographic format
Plants > Chemicals.
NASA’s morphing wing will make airplanes smoother, more efficient
Taking a cue from nature.
NASA’s pumpkin competition absolutely smashes everything else
It's out of this world.
Amazing photos of Exp 49 astronauts touching down on Earth after 115 days in space
One skilled photographer shows what coming to Earth feels like.
ISS crew just planted their third lettuce crop, hope to make it a permanent farm
Lettuce have a feast, then!
NASA reports damage from Hurricane Matthew
NASA itself feared the worst from the hurricane, but thankfully, the damage done at Cape Canaveral seems minor.
The Golden Records re-created for Voyager’s 40th anniversary
The most far-flung ablums ever.
Mercury will join the Solar System’s “tectonically active” planet club
Scientists found several faults with its application.
The planet is warming faster than it ever has in the last 1,000 years, NASA warns
This is not good news.
