Marina Koren
When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
A recent mission atop a Hawaiian volcano shows humans still have much to learn before they set foot on another world.
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NASA / JPL NASA Sets a Grim Deadline for Saving a Beloved Mars Rover
Some mission employees are stunned.
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NASA Space Art Is Causing a Ruckus Among Astronomers
The line between culture and clutter can be hard to trace, even hundreds of miles above Earth.
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Evan Vucci / AP / Angela He / ... Mike Pence’s Outer-Space Gospel
The vice president’s speeches about space sometimes sound like sermons. They draw on a long tradition of evangelical thinking about cosmic exploration.
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NASA / Reuters Hawaii’s Biggest Hurricane Threat in More Than Two Decades
“I’ve not seen such dramatic changes in the forecast track as I’ve seen with this storm.”
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty What If a Female CEO Acted Like Elon Musk?
The Tesla CEO’s tearful New York Times interview reveals a lot about the double standards men and women face.
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Reuters An Asteroid Named Aretha
The Queen of Soul’s legacy can be found even among the cosmos.
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NASA / Reuters It’s Easier to Leave the Solar System Than to Reach the Sun
The center of the solar system is a tricky destination, but NASA is going.
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / Getty Why Did Someone Unleash a Bunch of Goats in a Quiet Neighborhood?
The mystery behind a boisterous scene in Boise
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NASA / Reuters The Race to Launch From U.S. Soil Heats Up
NASA says SpaceX and Boeing are both behind schedule—but one is closer to the finish line.
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NASA / MSFC / Sergey Peterman / Shutterstock ... Too Much of a Good Thing at NASA
The agency’s culture of optimism is essential for launching people and robots into space. But it can lead to problems with budgets and deadlines.
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Chris Gunn / NASA 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.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona New Evidence for a Hidden Lake on Mars
Scientists say they have found a large body of water just below the surface, raising questions about the potential for life.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Space Force Will Have to Wait
The president has called for the creation of a new military branch. So far, Congress is ignoring him.
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ESO / L. Benassi A Breakthrough Way to See Distant Planets
Astronomers have created a one-of-a-kind image of a distant exoplanet by zeroing in on the molecules in its atmosphere.
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Kiichiro Sato / AP The Elon Musk Impersonators of the Internet
For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud.
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NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt ... A Flurry of Tiny Moons Around Jupiter
Four hundred years after Galileo discovered the planet’s biggest satellites, astronomers are still finding the smallest ones.
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DESY, Science Communication Lab Tiny Cosmic Particle Delivers Major Breakthrough in Astronomy
For the first time, astronomers have traced a neutrino back to its birthplace, billions of light-years across the universe.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute NASA Just Released the Song of the Summer
The plasma waves between Saturn and its icy moon Enceladus sound like eerie music to our ears.
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NASA The Moon Is a Rorschach Test for Humankind
For millennia, we have stared up at Earth’s glowing companion and found a plethora of shapes and stories in its features.
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Richard Shotwell / AP Buzz Aldrin's Son Tells His Side of the Story
“I think people are taking advantage of him.”
