December 13, 2017 Blue Origin launches 1st New Shepard spaceship test flight in over a year Blue Origin's reusable New Shepard suborbital vehicle took to the skies today (Dec. 12) for the first time in more than a year, according to media reports and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
December 12, 2017 Trump wants to see NASA boots on the Moon President Donald Trump wants to see U.S. astronauts return to the Moon as a foundation for future Mars missions.
December 12, 2017 Astronauts' faith: Tiny Apollo 13 Bible up for auction A tiny King James Bible that went to space on the famous Apollo 13 mission is up for auction this week.
December 8, 2017 Elon Musk dares the CEO of Boeing to race SpaceX to Mars SpaceX founder Elon Musk challenged Boeing's CEO to be first to get a human to Mars. Now that is a competition with some serious stakes! Here's how the crazy Twitter drama went down.
December 1, 2017 'Equator trap' may complicate search for alien life Spotting signs of life in an alien planet's atmosphere may be tougher than scientists had thought.
November 30, 2017 Interplanetary-internet test sends Antarctic selfie to Space Station A selfie sent from Antarctica to the International Space Station demonstrated an extra-robust communication network that promises to make an interplanetary internet more reliable.
November 24, 2017 Watch NASA test the supersonic parachute for the 2020 Mars mission In preparation for the next trip to the Red Planet, NASA tested a supersonic parachute that will be used during entry into the Martian atmosphere by deploying it from a rocket at nearly twice the speed of sound.
November 21, 2017 Runaway Chinese space station is going to be monitored by an international campaign Skywatchers are on the lookout for China's Tiangong-1 space lab — and the seeing is good.
November 20, 2017 Apollo astronaut watch, stolen in Ecuador, recovered 30 years later A NASA astronaut's wristwatch worn aboard the first Apollo mission in 1968 has been returned to the Smithsonian, nearly three decades after it was stolen from a museum in Ecuador.
November 16, 2017 SpaceX is launching its secret payload today: Here's what we know SpaceX plans to launch a secret payload known as Zuma on Thursday evening (Nov. 16), from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Florida's Space Coast.