The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches this fall. Once that happens, the history of human spaceflight will instantly be divided into two eras. There will have been the six decades after the fir

Mars Dune Alpha, the 3D-printed Habitat Located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Will Aid in Long-duration Science Missions ICON, developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software, and building materials, announced it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacob

NASA May Have Found the First Planet in Another Galaxy. “We know we are making an exciting and bold claim so we expect that other astronomers will look at it very carefully,” study co-author Julia Berndtsson of Princeton University said in a statement. “We think we have a strong argument, and this

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft will deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try and knock it off course. Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory hope the DART mission could help us save Earth from a catastrophic impact.

This edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles Jen and Paul Robertson, who are honoring their dear friend interior designer Carl Freiwald. Carl was a native of Michigan who died of AIDS at the age of 49. He was a talented interior designer who worked for the Robertson Brothers in...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July, 2016. But only just recently have scientists had a chance to analyze all of its data — and the results are painting a different picture of Jupiter than what anyone expected. Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, includi

Scientists say there's a place in our solar system outside of Earth that has the chemical make-up to potentially support life. Researchers found that Saturn's sixth largest moon -- Enceladus -- has an ocean that contains phosphorus, which is found in human teeth, bones and DNA. CBS News space consu...

In the wake of a recent crash test, NASA has confirmed that there in fact lies a significant amount of water underneath the Moon's surface. Science and tech...

Dr. Wendy Freedman, Chairman GMT, and Dr. Pat McCarthy, Director GMT, discuss the Giant Magellan Telescope's mirrors and the science that they will enable.

The former Kyle XY star and his husband of nearly a year, singer Blue Hamilton, revealed that they went through a certification process to become foster parents, in the hopes that it would lead to a formal adoption. “There were so many kids, and so many stories that broke our hearts,” says Hamilton,