space exploration
Here’s Our First View of TRAPPIST-1, the Alien Solar System With Earth-Sized Planets
Super pixellated, but still amazing.
Private Lunar Landers Are Coming, and They’re Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
The five final contenders for the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize push the boundaries of interplanetary exploration.
Farewell Gene Cernan, the Last Man on the Moon
Cernan passed away Monday surrounded by his family. He helped crew three historic spaceflights, including the Apollo 17 Moon landing in 1972.
Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded to Study the Nearest Exoplanets to Earth
Proxima b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system. Now the Very Large Telescope will look for its neighbors.
How to Watch ExoMars Land on the Red Planet on Wednesday
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos team up to look for life on Mars.
Can We Get a Human to Mars by 2030?
Motherboard's Ben Sullivan and Becky Ferreira hash out the likelihood of a Mars mission within the next two decades.
We're Going to Mars by the 2030s, Says Obama
"We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America's story in space."
Rosetta's historic, 5 billion–mile, comet-landing achievement ends in silence
After crash-landing on the comet it was tracking for 12 and a half years, Rosetta finally said goodnight by switching off its transmitters and cutting the connection with Earth.
No Man's Sky' Is the Stress Reliever I Didn't Know I Needed
The editors at VICE Gaming will be sharing their first impressions with one another for the next week, because the game is massive in scope.
'No Man's Sky' Is the Stress Reliever I Didn't Know I Needed
Because the game is massive in scope, the editors of VICE Gaming are starting a week-long series of dispatches sharing our first impressions of what it's like to play the game.