What’s that big metal doughnut on the ceiling? Actually, it’s part of NASA’s forthcoming Orion Service Module, about to be tested to ensure it can withstand the vibrations it will be exposed to during launch and travel. Read more >>
Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center have finished testing of their brand-new flexible heat shield designed for future Mars exploration vehicles. Also included? This amazing image of one test. Read More >>
You can see the wires holding up the rockets. FAKE.
Answers on the back of a postcard addressed to Gizmodo Towers.
Dwarf planet Ceres’s bright spots have been a winking mystery for months, but NASA finally thinks it’s solved the riddle: No, we’re not looking at a giant alien ice rink. More likely, enormous piles of salt. Read more >>
The NASA Discovery Program is sorting through suggestions for the agency’s next spaceflight investigation, and it's released a shortlist of just five missions — one or two of which should launch by 2021.
The discovery of liquid water on Mars is great news for would-be settlers, but we’ll need more than H2O if we actually want to live there.
A bit of appreciation for the International Space Station, if you please.
All the big facts about the big discovery in one place.
NASA's top bods sit down to field questions from Reddit about the huge news.
Don't worry, that's not another image of that bloody moon. It's Mars, from which we have big news today: NASA says there's strong evidence for liquid water on the Red Planet. Read more >>
If you’re wondering about the mechanics behind why the Moon looks bigger than usual tonight, or what that has to do with a lunar eclipse, this quick NASA animation will explain the basics of tonight’s astronomical event. Read More >>
Discovering life on another planet, only to contaminate that world with our own pesky microbes, is one of NASA’s nightmare scenarios.
This incredible aerial tour will finally let us normal people fly over Pluto. Read More >>
Today marks the anniversary when NASA’s Voyager 1 captured both the Earth and its Moon in a single frame. For the first time, we perfectly captured the two celestial bodies we call home. Space photography has come a very long way. Read More >>
The perfect enclosure to harbour life, perhaps?
