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“A simple fresh lettuce leaf was enough to wake up our taste buds and make us feel like earthlings again!” European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli tweeted on Oct. 28, 2017. The crew enjoyed fresh pickings of lettuce, cabbage and mizuna harvested from the Veg-03 investigation. To source

A selfie of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity at the Murray Buttes in Gale Crater, where boron was found in light-toned calcium-sulfate veins. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has discovered boron in Gale Crater — new evidence that the Red Planet may have been able to support life on its surface in the ancient past. Boron is […]

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik caught this photo of a flooded Houston on Aug. 31. Carie Lemack is co-founder and CEO of DreamUp , “the first company to bring space into classrooms and classrooms into space.” A former national security policy expert/advocate and producer of an Academy Award-nominated film, Lemack is a proud alumna of Space […]

A technician looks up to a small model of the Sputnik 1 satellite suspended inside the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft. The replica Sputnik will serve as the crew’s zero-g indicator while paying tribute to the 60th anniversary of the start of the Space Age. A small polished metal sphere with four protruding booms is poised to […]

The thin atmosphere of Mars today composed mainly of carbon dioxide as depicted in this artist’s illustration Mars is a planet that shows climate change on a large scale. Although its atmosphere used to be thick enough for water to run on the surface, today that water is either scarce or non-existent. The atmosphere today […]

Black holes are predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but they’re perplexing beasts. Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , We Don’t Planet , and COSI Science Now . Sutter contributed this article […]

The crew of the “Orville”: from left, Penny Johnson Jerald, Mark Jackson, Seth MacFarlane, Peter Macon, Scott Grimes, Adrianne Palicki, J. Lee and Halston Sage. Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first episode of “The Orville.” “Star Trek ” fans are used to being patient with a lackluster first episode, or even a lackluster […]

On Aug. 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast. Dr. Leroy Chiao is the CEO and co-founder of OneOrbit LLC, a keynote, training and education company. He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990 […]

By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer | September 11, 2017 03:40pm ET This image, taken by NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik from the International Space Station on Aug. 26, 2017, shows the New York City area. Credit: NASA On the 16th anniversary of 9/11, NASA shared a blog post providing look at some of the ways […]

American astronaut Randy Bresnik has a unique perspective on Hurricane Irma : He’s watching the massive storm march toward Florida from the International Space Station, where he can also see the Caribbean islands already devastated by the storm and the next big storm, Hurricane Jose. To Bresnik, who commands the space station’s three-man Expedition 53 […]

Scientists created a state of matter known as a time crystal, which seems to suspend the law of conservation of energy. Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , We Don’t Planet and COSI Science […]

An artist’s illustration of Brane Craft. Think of the latest idea of collecting space junk as something akin to a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey. Aerospace Corporation says its Brane Craft will wrap itself around debris orbiting Earth and drag it back down through the atmosphere, causing it to burn up and never again […]

The eponymous ship in “The Orville,” a new space-comedy show premiering Sept. 10 on the Fox network. A new “Star Trek” spoof takes flight tonight (Sept. 10) on the Fox network. “The Orville” is a space-comedy and drama show set 400 years in the future aboard the USS Orville. The show debuts at 8 p.m. […]