The first images from the James Webb telescope are finally here
The world's most powerful space telescope is open for business.
By Emmett Smith
The secret life of biofluorescent sea creatures
From snails to sharks, marine life glows in the dark.
NASA's new innovation could help get humans to Mars by 2040
A game-changing heat shield could be the key to getting us to Mars.
By Mark Stetson and Elisha Sauers
Five planets align for first time in 18 years
A sight you won't want to miss!
By Mark Stetson and Jules Suzdaltsev
The giant megalodon extinction, explained
MEGA SHARK, rip, rip, rip, rip, rip.
By Mark Stetson and Mark Kaufman
These tiny, modular robots are going to space
Why send one big robot when you can send a swarm of tiny robots?
Did astronauts really eat freeze dried ice cream in space?
Ice cream and NASA go way back - all the way back to the Apollo program! But astronauts probably didn’t consume as much freeze dried ice cream as your local science museum’s gift shop has you assuming.
By Alisa Stern
NASA sent a satellite into the Sun (and it survived!)
(Not) too close for comfort
In Antarctica, a clunky robot has befriended a colony of penguins
ECHO is part of a scientific project studying climate change's impact on emperor penguins.
Built with 3D printers, these wind turbine blades are completely recyclable
The method could greatly reduce the weight and cost of wind turbine blades in the future.
By Emmett Smith
A thousand trees camouflage a futuristic shopping mall in Shanghai
An architecture studio is turning an abandoned industrial site in Shanghai into a green leisure space.
Watch adorable footage of astronauts waltzing in their new spacesuits
"We call this the 'suit fit waltz'."
How to sustainably turn salt water into drinking water
Solar-powered desalination systems are multiplying. This one has figured out a way to reduce energy consumption.
NASA finally unsealed precious moon rocks collected 50 years ago
It's been a long time coming.
There's 5,000 known exoplanets beyond our solar system. Here's what that sounds like.
"A note for each newly discovered world."
Invincible: Eddie Vedder and...NASA just made a weirdly inspiring rocket music video
A cosmic collaboration.
By Mark Kaufman
Astronaut Chris Hadfield tests a future Mars rover in Death Valley
The rover could play a key role in our survival on other planets, especially if we decide to permanently settle.
By Emmett Smith
How a couple replanted an entire forest in Brazil
Just 30 years ago, this budding forest was a barren land.
Watch a new lunar rover drive across Death Valley terrain
A trial run for the moon — and eventually Mars.
Over a century after its icy demise, the 'Endurance' has been found
Undersea drones helped out
