Along with Other Government Agencies, NASA Tries “Telework Day” to Test Its Operational Capabilities for a Coronavirus Response Today, March 6th, NASA officials decided to test a telework day for many agency employees. If successful, the test day will provide...

Space Lettuce Is as Nutritious as Earth Lettuce, Study Suggests. Sometime in the next decade or so, NASA astronauts will make their way to Mars. When they do, they’ll most likely have to grow their own food during the long...

This is the Most Critical Year for the Artemis Moon Landing Mission. What Happens in 2020 will Determine What Happens in 2024. Last year Vice President Pence shocked the space community by announcing a new, much closer, deadline for the...

Out with “MARS 2020” and in with “Perseverance”—NASA Finally Reveals the Name of its Newest Mars Rover! Today, NASA officials announced the name of the Rover-Formerly-Known-As-MARS-2020. As is tradition when naming Mars rover, the agency combed through 28,000 K-12 student...

Preliminary Findings Point to Evidence of Extraterrestrial Protein. A team of researchers in Massachusetts claim that they found the first known extraterrestrial protein. Their source? A meteorite that hit Earth three decades ago. Of course, findings are preliminary, and a...

One of NASA’s Most Remarkable Spacecraft Survived an Interstellar Glitch. And Now It’s Back to Collecting Data. In January, a seemingly critical incident threatened to put an end to NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. The legendary spacecraft, part of a set...

First Came Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope Launches Next Year. But is LUVOIR Next? It’s been thirty years since Hubble—NASA and the world’s first space telescope—launched and began to give us some of the most stunning images of the...

Looking for the Ultimate in Space Collectibles and Memorabilia? A U.K.-Based Company Has You Covered! You want a moon rock? There are some cheap knockoffs out there, but the real deal is pretty much out of reach for most of...