Space Exploration

NASA’s presumptive next leader, billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, already has big plans for the space agency

RFK, Jr., could restructure the CDC, FDA and NIH in pursuit of his flawed vision of public health. Plus, we discuss chimpanzees at play and the first-ever close-up image of a star.

The far side of the moon offers grounds for compromise between advocates and opponents of lunar development

A serious bird flu infection in Canada, a troubling projection of future plastic waste and dispatches from a global climate convention.

Jonny Kim—a former Navy SEAL and emergency medicine resident—is now a NASA astronaut who will soon launch to the International Space Station as flight engineer for the crew of Expedition 72/73

Droughts in 48 of 50 U.S. states, evidence of microplastics mucking up wastewater recycling and the science of a baseball mud bath in this week’s news roundup.

Pesky leaks on the International Space Station aren’t the most serious issue facing U.S. human spaceflight

A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, but what about other large pieces of space debris?

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today

A roundup of the science Nobels, the latest COVID updates and the Europa Clipper launch delay.

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough that finally confirms the star hosts a planetary system