Space

the T-Minus logo over an animation of asteroids
Aerospace
T-Minus: NASA’s surprise asteroid, China’s reusable rocket, and more
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a surprising asteroid discovery, a new reusable rocket, and more.
Kristin Houser
images of mouse embryos
Aerospace
Mouse embryos grown in space for the first time
A mouse experiment on the International Space Station suggests humans might one day be able to reproduce in space.
Kristin Houser
Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, JWST.
Outer Space
Explore JWST’s deepest views ever for yourself
If you want to observe the Universe more deeply than ever before, simply point your high-powered observatory at the same region of sky.
Ethan Siegel
An image of a cluster of stars in space.
Astronomy
Astronomers spot the first “bounce” in our Universe
Ethan Siegel
An image of the earth with stars in the background, featuring largest asteroid impact.
Asteroids
Evidence suggests the world’s largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia
Andrew Glikson
a gif of a satellite being placed into orbit with the T-Minus logo on top of it
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: Victus Nox, a record-breaking ISS mission, and more
Kristin Houser
the T-Minus logo over a gif of NASA's Mars 2020 mission on its decent to Mars
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: The end of O2 on Mars and the week’s other big space stories
Kristin Houser
Two men conducting ISRU research in a spacecraft laboratory.
Aerospace
NASA finishes the first experiment to make oxygen on Mars
Kristin Houser
An image of a spiral galaxy captured by the Hubble telescope.
Outer Space
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
Ethan Siegel
An image of a large antenna on a grassy hill used by SpinLaunch.
Aerospace
SpinLaunch will hurl payloads into orbit, cutting the cost of launch by 20x
Adam Frank
An artist's rendering of a space station equipped with a bag for capturing space trash
Aerospace
NASA is spending $850,000 to make a bag for space trash
Kristin Houser
Gamma-ray bursts from the milky way.
Outer Space
“Ghostly” neutrinos help us see our Milky Way as never before
Don Lincoln
An artist's rendering of NASA's X-ray observatory, XRISM
Astronomy
NASA’s next-gen X-ray observatory is ready for launch (Updated)
Kristin Houser