Marina Koren
The Moment That Made Neil Armstrong’s Heart Rate Spike
Real-time data from the Apollo 11 astronauts, carefully monitored by Mission Control, capture the frenzied maneuvers that put men on the moon.
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NASA The Mystery at the Center of the Solar System
A spacecraft has finally gotten close enough to the sun to gather clues about some lingering questions.
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NASA The Wonder of Fire Without Gravity
It’s about to get lit on the International Space Station.
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Kirsty Johnston The False Promise of Morning Routines
Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours
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NASA An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream
A study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before.
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NASA The Second Moon Landing Was Much Rowdier
With a successful first mission in the books, the crew of Apollo 12 was under less pressure.
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NASA NASA’s Grueling Underwater Test for Astronauts
A giant swimming pool is the best place on Earth for simulating weightlessness.
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NASA / AP A Hitch at NASA Headquarters
NASA has carried out its first all-female spacewalk, but hints of outdated thinking about women in space remain.
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Luke Sharrett / Getty Images The Mystery of Moon Water
The lunar supply won’t be anything like the stuff on Earth, but NASA wants it anyway.
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NASA The Exquisite Boredom of Spacewalking
A trip outside the International Space Station is, at its core, a home-improvement project.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser / Nick Risinger A Dazzling Quarter Century of Exoplanet Discovery
The next time the Nobel Prize recognizes exoplanet science, it could be for the detection of signs of life on another world.
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Jae C. Hong / AP / Bill Ingalls ... NASA Hands Elon Musk a Reality Check
A shared effort to deliver NASA astronauts to space recently got a little awkward.
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Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters SpaceX Has Starry-Eyed Ambitions for Its Starship
Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious future for his spaceship project, the effort to deliver people to the moon and Mars.
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NASA The Satellites Were Never Supposed to Launch
Two years after illegally launching tiny satellites into orbit, a start-up is trying to convince regulators it’s going to play by the rules.
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SARAO The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its Center
Astronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy’s black hole.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech ‘This Is Clearly Coming From Outside the Solar System’
The second known visitor to our cosmic neighborhood from another star is making quite an entrance.
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NASA SpaceX Missed Some Urgent Emails About a Satellite Standoff
Stopping collisions in space starts with good communication.
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ESA / Hubble / M. Kornmesser An Exoplanet Like No Other Yet Found
K2-18b probably can’t host life as we know it, but it orbits in a cosmic sweet spot where water vapor in the atmosphere could turn into liquid.
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NASA A Second Failed Moon Landing
India lost contact with its spacecraft just before touchdown. Why is it so hard to stick a lunar landing?
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How to Plan a Family Around an Interplanetary Mission
For would-be parents working on the historic Voyager mission, the best time to have children was in the window between planetary stops.
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NASA Why Soviets Sent Dogs to Space While Americans Used Primates
Researchers didn’t know how people would react to weightlessness. So they sent animals first.
