Space Exploration

NASA Mars Landing Craft Idea Is More Than Just Child’s Play

Assuming we can get humans all the way to Mars, how the heck do we land them on the Red…

10 years ago

Our Beautiful Earth – Happy New Year Photos and Greetings from the ISS Crew

Spectacular View of the Alps From Space! Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) took…

10 years ago

10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015

A new Avengers movie. A reboot of the Star Wars franchise. The final installment of the Hunger Games. The Martian…

10 years ago

Where Did Europa’s Water Geyser Go? Hubble Double-Checking Its Work

It was about this time last year that Europa really began to excite us again. Following a sci-fi movie about…

10 years ago

Could Lizard Hands Help Us Clean Up Space Junk?

We've written extensively about the orbital debris problem here on Universe Today. In a nutshell, just about every time we…

10 years ago

Mercury Spacecraft’s 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month

If all goes well -- and there's no guarantee of this -- NASA's venerable Mercury sentinel may have an extra…

10 years ago

Space-y Charity: Some Ideas To Respond To Astronaut Hadfield’s Challenge

While the world was enchanted with Chris Hadfield's social media posts last year, a new video has the retired astronaut…

10 years ago

Incredible Towering Structures Cast Shadows Across Saturn’s Rings

From a distance, Saturn's rings look like a sheer sheet, but peer up close and you can see that impression…

10 years ago