May 30, 2018 Could we build the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars'? With so many incredible, newly developing technologies, could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon?
May 30, 2018 Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane aces 2nd powered test flight Virgin Galactic's newest space plane has taken to the skies again.
May 29, 2018 Astronaut Don Peterson, who performed first shuttle spacewalk, dead at 84 Astronaut Donald Peterson, one of the first astronauts to perform a spacewalk from the space shuttle, died on Sunday at the age of 84.
May 29, 2018 Jeff Bezos says we need to leave Earth The recently anointed richest person in the world, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, says we need to colonize the moon — and time is of the essence.
May 29, 2018 Trump's new space policy directive 2 could make life easier for SpaceX and others The Trump administration's push to ease regulations on private industry is no longer confined to Earth.
May 24, 2018 Mysterious medium-size black holes may lurk at the centers of small galaxies The hearts of small galaxies may hide a mysterious kind of black hole that has long proved elusive: medium-size black holes with masses between the mass of a few suns and that of millions of suns, a new study finds.
May 22, 2018 China makes move in quest to be first to the dark side of moon While China and the US go back and forth on tariffs here on Earth, the former is forging ahead with a more celestial grand plan.
May 21, 2018 Elon Musk shows off incredible SpaceX human transport pod on Instagram, Twitter SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to social media to show off a look at the company's Crew Dragon ship, which could be used in the future to transport humans in space.
May 21, 2018 Does humanity really need a backup Earth? SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. He already wowed the world this year, when the Falcon Heavy launched and flung a Tesla car toward the asteroid belt. And this heavy-lift rocket will be dwarfed by the boosters Musk plans for Mars exploration, which he says will carry colonists in fleets of ships to the Red Planet.
May 17, 2018 Moon dust could give astronauts permanent DNA damage, study finds In space, they say, no one can hear you sneeze. But Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was doing a lot of that inside the Challenger command module when he visited the moon in 1972.