NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Regina Barber and Nell Greenfieldboyce about the Artemis moon missions, the "seismic quiet" during a solar eclipse, and the origins of a mysterious interstellar visitor.

When your kitchen lacks enough counter space, your options to remedy the issue may seem limited without additional square footage or a major renovation. Sure, you could bring in a piece of furniture ...

Plus: NASA has launched a historic moon mission. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. As the war in ...

The space ambitions of nation states and billionaires alike demand better sources of power, and a new startup founded by two Stanford PhDs may have the answer. Arinna, founded by CEO Koosha Nazif and ...

A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 22, 2026.

An independent review of the first — and so far, only — piloted flight of Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft concluded that the test represented a potentially life-threatening "Type A" mishap ...

A SpaceX rocket that burned up after re-entering the atmosphere unleashed a plume of vaporised metals over Europe, a type of pollution that is expected to increase as spacecraft and satellites ...

Space debris, also known as space junk, consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages and other various fragments from collisions. According to the ...

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said data centers in space will become a reality, but cooling issues still need to be resolved. Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted space-based data centers as a ...

In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front Door process.” It seemed simple. We offer clear applications for pressing ...

For the first time in the International Space Station’s history, NASA said it was cutting short a crew mission after an astronaut “experienced a medical situation.” “It’s in the best interests of our ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The ...