Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them.

Thumbs down: Ironically, the Harris County Democratic Party, as of Friday afternoon, still hasn’t moved its upcoming Johnson Jackson Lee Richard Gala at the hotel. Do Democrats stand with striking ...

Prize: NASA could offer a prize—say $3 billion to the first company and $1 billion to a second company—for delivering something like 1 kg of Mars rocks and soil back to Earth. NASA has used prizes ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...

Air Force Maj. Ross Elder will lead a 378-day NASA mission with three other crew members in a structure that simulates a base on Mars.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have spent two decades and large portions of their exorbitant wealth creating new space technologies. Their plan is to reshape how humans live.

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told by instruments here on Earth." A potentially huge discovery by NASA's ...

A rock sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may contain evidence of ancient microbial life, preserved for billions of years on the Red Planet. The potential “biosignature” is not direct ...

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With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of ...

In a groundbreaking development, Ohio State University has unveiled a new concept for nuclear thermal propulsion that could significantly cut down travel time to Mars. Building on past space ...