NASA

NASA Collaborated With Autodesk To Design A New Interplanetary Lander

Figuring out a way to explore distant moons requires some creative thinking.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Everyone's Making Money Using NASA Logos Except NASA

Government logos are free.

  • By Marc Bain, Quartz

Hubble Space Telescope Is Back In Action

Tech support for a telescope is quite the challenge.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

NASA Designed a Special Claw For the Mars Insight Lander

The claw is essential for investigating the red planet.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

NASA Made the Mars Curiosity Rover Switch Brains

No, NASA can't do this process on people.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Are the U.S. Space Forces Starting to Muster?

It's still the final frontier.

  • By John Breeden II

The Moon Is Open for Business

Commercial companies are proposing lunar missions at a pace the world hasn’t seen since the Apollo program.

  • By Marina Koren, The Atlantic

NASA's Mini-Satellite Could Improve Your Weather Forecast

This tiny device is designed to track massive storms.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change

The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from cities around the world.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

NASA’s Beloved Mars Rovers Are Having a Rough Year

One was felled by a dust storm. And now the other has been sidelined by a technical glitch.

  • By Marina Koren, The Atlantic

NASA’s First Female Chief Spaceflight Director is Holly Ridings

Ridings will lead all human spaceflight missions from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

  • By Jane C. Hu, Quartz

NASA's Space Probes Shouldn't Be Tacky Billboards

Apollo, Voyager, Hubble … The Dorito?

  • By Marina Koren, The Atlantic

A Tiny Hole in the Soyuz Spacecraft Could Be a Huge Headache for NASA

This puts more pressure on Boeing and SpaceX to fly astronauts.

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz

NASA Is Waiting for the Opportunity Rover to Phone Home

Scientists and researchers are standing by.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

For First Time in 3 Years, NASA Is Shopping For New Spacecraft

At first, NASA officials didn’t think they’d see anything new in commercial spacecraft this year. Now they’re taking a second look.

  • By Aaron Boyd

NASA App Lets You Explore the Stars Using VR

Space selfie time!

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Space as a Service: NASA and SpaceX Find a New Way of Putting People Into Orbit

SpaceX could be ferrying astronauts by April 2019.

  • By Tim Fernholz, Quartz

NASA Is Running a 3D Printing Competition to Design Homes on Mars

The idea is to send a robot to Mars to autonomously print a habitat for the arrival of astronauts.

  • By Madis Kabash, Quartz

Inside NASA's Cold Atom Lab

Astronauts are studying some very chilly atoms.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Who Should Pay for the Mistakes on NASA’s Next Big Telescope?

The space agency has always coughed up the extra cash, but some politicians wonder if the contractor responsible for major errors should pitch in.

  • By Marina Koren, The Atlantic