March 12, 2018 Elon Musk plans Mars spaceship, warns there's a 'good chance' that early passengers could die Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, once said, "Mars is there, waiting to be reached." If Elon Musk has his way, he'll be the one to reach it, even if it's likely to be a difficult and dangerous journey that good result in the loss of human life.
March 11, 2018 Chinese satellite filled with corrosive fuel could hit lower Michigan Look out for—falling space debris?
March 7, 2018 Astronaut Scott Kelly: How I went from bad student to space star Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says that he owes his storied space career to Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” which he read when he was 18.
March 6, 2018 SpaceX launches Spanish communications satellite on landmark 50th Falcon 9 flight SpaceX successfully launched a Spanish communications satellite early today (March 6) on the landmark 50th flight of the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
March 6, 2018 China's big space lab may fall to Earth this month The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a new re-entry forecast for China's Tiangong-1 space lab.
February 22, 2018 NASA doubles down on deep space exploration, but uncertain future for International Space Station NASA’s $19.9 billion budget proposal redirects the agency’s focus towards deep space exploration, bringing people to the Moon and eventually to Mars and beyond. It also calls for the termination of federal funding for the International Space Station, choosing instead to privatize it. But, critics argue the budget isn’t enough to fund the agency’s goals.
February 22, 2018 NASA's new spacesuit has a built-in toilet NASA engineers are working on a new spacesuit that includes a long-term waste-disposal system — effectively, a built-in toilet.
February 22, 2018 How a new 'happy suit' would protect astronauts from the stresses of space Researchers from Florida Polytechnic University are developing a "happy suit" that they say will protect astronauts from the psychologically harrowing effects of space travel.
February 21, 2018 How 5,000 pencil-size robots may solve the mysteries of the universe A 45-year-old telescope is going to get a high-tech upgrade that will enable it to search for answers to the most perplexing questions in astronomy, including the existence of dark energy, a hypothetical invisible force that might be driving the expansion of the universe.
February 21, 2018 SpaceX delays Falcon 9 rocket launch due to high-altitude winds SpaceX called off an attempted launch of its Falcon 9 rocket in California today (Feb. 21) due to strong high-altitude winds, according to the company's CEO, Elon Musk.
