Space

Policy

NASA Picks Next 8 Astronauts. You Might Get To Go to Space Before They Do.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.18.2013 5:20 PM

Science & Technology

Massachusetts Man's Backyard Rock Actually a Piece of Russian Space Station

Maybe trade it in for a super bowl ring?

Reason Staff | 6.17.2013 3:00 PM

Science & Technology

Shenzhou-10 Docks With Tiangong-1 Space Lab

Astronauts to remain there 12 days to make repairs

Reason Staff | 6.13.2013 10:36 AM

Science & Technology

Can Donuts Explain Dark Matter?

Donut-shaped electromagnetic fields, that is

Reason Staff | 6.11.2013 1:00 PM

Science & Technology

NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Mars

Planet once may have had conditions that might have supported life

Reason Staff | 6.10.2013 4:00 PM

Science & Technology

Private Teams Compete To Develop Their Own Mars Rovers

No word as to whether Marvin is judging

Reason Staff | 6.6.2013 5:30 PM

Science & Technology

NASA Wants to Point Mars Rover to Mount Sharp

Curiosity

Reason Staff | 6.6.2013 8:04 AM

Science & Technology

Galactic Local Arm Larger Than Previously Thought

Our corner of the Milky Way

Reason Staff | 6.4.2013 9:40 AM

Science & Technology

Alien Planet Imaged Directly

Photographed orbiting a star 300 light years away

Reason Staff | 6.3.2013 2:04 PM

Science & Technology

Ancient Egyptian Necklaces Found to Be Made of Meteorite Metal

The more things change

Reason Staff | 5.31.2013 9:48 AM

Science & Technology

Asteroid Passing Earth on Friday Has Its Own Moon

1998 QE 2

Reason Staff | 5.30.2013 6:50 PM

Economics

Take a Space Selfie on This Cool Private Orbiting Telescope!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.30.2013 4:04 PM

Science & Technology

3D Printer Arriving at International Space Station Next Year

Future getting closer?

Reason Staff | 5.30.2013 4:00 PM

Culture

Premature Prophets

The lost tomorrows of space colonies and nanotech

Brian Doherty | 5.30.2013 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Privately Funded Telescope to be Sent to Moon

View of Earth to be accessible via internet

Reason Staff | 5.29.2013 10:52 AM

World

Soyuz Reaches ISS in Record Time

Carrying a NASA engineer as one of three astronauts

Reason Staff | 5.29.2013 10:44 AM

Science & Technology

Nuking Dangerous Earth-Bound Asteroids Might Be Necessary

Best bet, according to scientists

Reason Staff | 5.29.2013 10:28 AM

Science & Technology

Scientists: Arctic Bacteria Could Be Key to Understanding How Life on Mars Could Exist

Some parts of Earth might as well be an alien planet

Reason Staff | 5.24.2013 9:16 AM

Science & Technology

Scientists Map Titan's Topography For First Time

Using data from NASA's Cassini

Reason Staff | 5.23.2013 9:48 AM

Science & Technology

Mars Opportunity Beats Off-World Travel Record Set by Apollo Moon Buggy Forty Years Ago

22 miles traveled on Mars

Reason Staff | 5.22.2013 11:00 AM

Science & Technology

Mars Curiosity Rover to Drill into Second Rock

Science is about rocks too

Reason Staff | 5.21.2013 1:00 PM

Politics

Talk Private Space Exploration with XCOR's Doug Jones: Livestream Today at 3pm ET/12 noon PT

Nick Gillespie | 5.16.2013 3:01 PM

Science & Technology

NASA Mulling Ideas of Crops on Mars

Part of plan to land a human on the planet by 2030

Reason Staff | 5.16.2013 10:12 AM

Science & Technology

Planet Found Using Einstein's "Beaming Effect"

Kepler 76-b is a "BEER" planet

Reason Staff | 5.14.2013 10:04 AM

Science & Technology

New Research Focuses on Black Holes as Evolutionary Adaptation of Universe

"Cosmological natural selection hypothesis"

Reason Staff | 5.13.2013 1:16 PM

Science & Technology

Sun Releases Strongest Flare So Far This Year

Over mother's day weekend

Reason Staff | 5.13.2013 11:32 AM

Science & Technology

Leak on International Space Station Fixed

Spacewalk to deal with ammonia leak

Reason Staff | 5.11.2013 9:00 PM

Science & Technology

Astronauts Switch from Windows to Linux

At the International Space Station

Reason Staff | 5.10.2013 7:30 PM

Science & Technology

Astronauts Plan Fix for Serious Space Station Leak

Critical cooling system leaks ammonia

Reason Staff | 5.10.2013 2:28 PM

Science & Technology

Solar Eclipse 'Ring of Fire' Today

For those in the South Pacific, anyway

Reason Staff | 5.9.2013 11:23 AM

Science & Technology

Intergalactic Hydrogen Bridges Could Be Source for Star Formation

Long after a galaxy's peaked in star production

Reason Staff | 5.9.2013 11:00 AM

Science & Technology

78,000 Applications So Far for One-Way Trip to Mars

Homesteaders in space

Reason Staff | 5.8.2013 6:30 PM

Science & Technology

Fight Among States for SpaceX's Business

Texas vs. Florida vs. Georgia

Reason Staff | 5.7.2013 5:50 PM

Science & Technology

Hibernating Dwarf Lemurs a Key to Deep Space Travel?

Maybe

Reason Staff | 5.3.2013 1:32 PM

Nanny State

NASA Asks People for Names and Messages to Put on a DVD and Send to Mars

Nothing better to do?

Reason Staff | 5.2.2013 8:44 AM

World

Mega Hurricane Observed on Saturn

20 times larger, 4 times faster

Reason Staff | 4.30.2013 9:40 AM

Science & Technology

Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Makes Initial Powered Flight

Planning full space flight by year's end

Reason Staff | 4.29.2013 2:36 PM

Science & Technology

Florida Travel Agency Among Few Selling Tickets to Outer Space

on Virgin Galactic

Reason Staff | 4.25.2013 9:32 AM

Science & Technology

Hubble Snaps Photos of Approaching Comet

Could outshine the moon in November

Reason Staff | 4.24.2013 9:24 AM

Science & Technology

Canadian Astronaut Performs Wet Towel Experiment at International Space Station

For science, natch

Reason Staff | 4.23.2013 2:28 PM

Science & Technology

IceCube Captures Extragalactic Neutrinos

Could've come from a galaxy far far away

Reason Staff | 4.23.2013 12:36 PM

Science & Technology

Successful Launch for Antares

The private sector rocket reaches orbit

Reason Staff | 4.21.2013 11:10 PM

Science & Technology

Antares Rocket Launch Scheduled for Today

Bringing goodies up to the space station

Reason Staff | 4.21.2013 12:27 PM

World

59-Year-Old Russian Becomes Oldest Spacewalker

Spent two decades as a cosmonaut

Reason Staff | 4.19.2013 3:00 PM

Science & Technology

Three New Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered

Anybody up for some planetsteading?

Reason Staff | 4.18.2013 7:20 PM

Science & Technology

Private Mars Mission Overwhelmed by Applicants

Enormous cool factor

Reason Staff | 4.16.2013 2:12 PM

Science & Technology

Scientists: Alien Life Most Likely to Be Found on Moons of Jupiter, Saturn

No Bracewell probe on the far side?

Reason Staff | 4.16.2013 9:56 AM