It Would Cost a Whole Lot To Live on the Moon for One Year
This week Elon Musk announced plans to plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars. It’s a thrilling notion,…
Watch Elon Musk Reveal His Plan to Colonize Mars
We’re finally going to hear Elon Musk’s plans for a mission to Mars. You can watch along to find out what it is at…
It’s Going to Be Tougher to Find Drinkable Water on Mars Than We Thought
Explorers hoping to find easily accessible liquid water on Mars may be out of luck. A new study questions the source of…
NASA's Attaching an Expandable Space House to the ISS
The ISS has gotten quite a few improvements lately, but the latest addition is unusually impressive: a 12-foot long…
Curiosity's Next Mission Will Focus on Life on Mars
The Curiosity rover was sent up to Mars with the important job of hunting for microbes on the red planet’s surface.…
Botanists Just Answered One of the Biggest Questions About Farming on Mars
Researchers have successfully grown a crop of tomatoes, peas, and radishes harvested in Martian soil—and with those…
Here's the New Drilling-Lander That NASA Is Sending Up to Mars
Late last year, the lander NASA was going to send up to Mars was grounded just three months before its planned launch…
Here Is Our First Look at Virgin Galactic's New Space Plane
Two years ago, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceshipTwo, the space plane it hoped to use to send tourists into space, failed on a…
We Think These Martian Roadmaps Accidentally Revealed the Site of an Upcoming Mars Landing
In 2018, a Martian rover will land on that planet’s surface to dig in the dirt for signs of past life—and some newly…
How We Could Build a City on Mars
If we want to someday live on Mars, spaceships won’t be enough. We would need a Martian city—and this is how we might…
NASA's New Retro Travel Posters Make Us Want to Go Visit an Exoplanet
Have you squared away all your summer vacation plans, yet? Why not a trip to this dark, airless—yet, still a little…
How a New Spacesuit Will Help Us Live on Mars
Amy Ross is an engineer who has been designing and building new spacesuits for NASA since the ‘90s. We sat down with…
The ESA's Head Just Dropped a Proposal to Build a Village on the Moon
The European Space Agency has a brand new head. Johann-Dietrich Woerner took over the agency two weeks ago and he just…
This Huge Engineering Project May Be Our Best Chance At Colonizing Space
Space colonization has reached an impasse, for reasons far more fundamental than a lack of money for the Space Shuttle…
Where Are All The Aliens? This Short Video Offers Some Solutions
In Part I of Kurz Gesagt’s animated explainer of the Fermi Paradox we learned about the vexing problem that is the…
How Asteroid Mining Could Pay for Our First Space Colony
Many of us dream of living on other planets, but are two things we'll need before it can actually happen: money and…
Which Religions Are Prepared to Accept Life in Space?
Assuming we don't blow ourselves up before then, colonizing other planets may be the last hope for the survival of…
Stephen Hawking on Space Colonization, Villainy, and Predictive Text
The fictional version of Stephen Hawking is getting a lot of attention thanks to the biopic The Theory of Everything.…
Learn About the Latest Tech That Will Help Us Live in Space
Want to learn about NASA's plans for futuristic technologies that will help us become a space-faring civilization? Then…
What Are The Best Reasons Why We Should We Explore Space?
It's difficult to look up on a clear night and not feel the pull to get out there, anywhere, and see a little more of…