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The pharmanauts: how will astronauts produce drugs on deep space missions?

Scientists have come up with some pretty inventive ways to produce interstellar drugs -- because astronauts will likely need them.

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Scientists want to make space bricks out of human urine on Mars

Everything we need to build stuff would already be available on Mars.

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Is it possible for planets to orbit multiple star systems like in sci-fi?

Planets in binary, tetranary, octonary systems. Are they possible?

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We’ve managed to litter Mars, as well, NASA’s Perseverance Rover shows

Wherever humans go, trash follows.

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An incredibly detailed map of Psyche shows the asteroid has a very eventful...

Metals, rock, and craters are sprinkled all throughout its surface.

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The James Webb Space Telescope goes live with a stunning first picture,...

This is a momentous occasion.

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Chinese astronauts grow rice and cress in space, on the Tiangong 1 station

More and more experiments show that food can be grown in space.

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NASA funds three research projects aimed at clearing the trash in Earth’s orbit

Tidying up in space will take some impressive research.

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Perseverance finds organic material in rock samples from Mars

This isn't proof that Mars used to harbor life, but it does help support that hypothesis.

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Researchers rediscover ancient parchment that served as ancient, accurate map...

The catalog was thought to be lost -- but was now rediscovered.

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A new approach to cleaning space junk is being tested in space right now

It's not meant to remove what's already there, but to stop new trash from piling up.

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Uranus is leaking radiation, researchers say

Some headline formats never get old.

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All eyes are on a Chinese rocket — because it’s falling from space and we...

Um, oopsie?

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Two new NASA missions earmarked for ‘lost habitable’ planet Venus

We haven't been there in a while.

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Alien observers from 1,700 star systems could already be aware that there’s...

Researchers estimate that 29 of those are potentially habitable.

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Bezos picks aerospace pioneer Wally Funk to join him on space flight

They are scheduled to launch on July 20 on the New Shepard rocket

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Martian outposts could be made with astronaut’s blood, sweat, and pee — quite...

Their blood, tears, and sweat contain useful chemicals for developing construction materials.

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What is the Oort cloud: the very edge of the solar system

At the edge of the Sun's gravitational influence, there's a cloud of ice and rock. Probably.

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Earth might develop ‘junk’ rings — but engineers are working to prevent that

Magnets can help un-clutter space, according to new research.

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Researchers have just found the biggest galaxy ever discovered — and it’s big...

We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us better understand them.

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